Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)McDougall, Marion Gleason
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Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)
McDougall, Marion Gleason
Fugitive slaves -- United States; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
Planter
States 45 0 9 54
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Total,
Slave States 77 0 15 92
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Total 109 75 54 238]
[Footnote 159: Appendix B, Nos. 83, 84. For general discussions of the
act, see Von Holst, III. 548-557, IV. 9-12, 20-29; Wilson, Slave Power,
II. 302-329; Greeley, American Conflict, I. 210-221; Cooley's Story, §
1921; Lalor's Cyclopædia, II. 315-317; Bryant and Gay, U. S., IV.
397-401.]
[Footnote 160: For the text of the act, see Appendix B, No. 31.]
[Footnote 161: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 1610.]
[Footnote 162: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 1583.]
[Footnote 163: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 2 Sess., Appendix, 1051.]
[Footnote 164: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 2 Sess., Appendix, 1622.]
[Footnote 165: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 79.]
[Footnote 166: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 78.]
[Footnote 167: Von Holst, III. 493.]
[Footnote 168: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 1597.]
CHAPTER III.
_PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860._
§ 33. Change in character of cases.
§ 34. The first case of rescue (1793).
§ 35. President Washington's demand for a fugitive (1796).
§ 36. Kidnapping cases.
§ 37. Jones case (1836).
§ 38. Solomon Northrup case (about 1830).
§ 39. Washington case (between 1840 and 1850).
§ 40. Oberlin case (1841).
§ 41. Interference and rescues.
§ 42. Chickasaw rescue (1836).
§ 43. Philadelphia case (1838).
§ 44. Latimer case (1842).
§ 45. Ottoman case (1846).
§ 46. Interstate relations.
§ 47. Boston and Isaac cases (1837, 1839).
§ 48. Ohio and Kentucky cases (1848).
§ 49. Prosecutions.
§ 50. Van Zandt, Pearl, and Walker cases (1840, 1844).
§ 51. Unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
§ 52. Principle of the selection of cases.
§ 53. Hamlet case (1850).
§ 54. Sims case (1851).
§ 55. Burns case (1854).
§ 56. Garner case (1856).
§ 57. Shadrach case (1851).
§ 58. Jerry McHenry case (1851).
§ 59. Oberlin-Wellington case (1858).
§ 60. Christiana case (1851).
§ 61. Miller case (1851).
§ 62. John Brown in Kansas (1858).
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