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Victory of law the Fourteenth amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867 / by Nabers, Deak

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The Zong a massacre, the law and the end of slavery / by Walvin, James

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Humanitarian intervention and changing labor relations the long-term consequences of the abolition of the slave trade /

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Fugitive justice runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial / by Lubet, Steven

Table of Contents: “…-- The height of cruelty -- Judge Loring's predicament -- Freedom on the Western reserve -- The son betrays and the father indicts -- Votaries of the higher law -- An irrepressible conflict.…”
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Border war fighting over slavery before the Civil War / by Harrold, Stanley

Subjects: “…United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)…”
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Race and rights : fighting slavery and prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870 / by Weiner, Dana Elizabeth

Subjects: “…African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. Northwest, Old History 19th century.…”
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In the shadow of freedom the politics of slavery in the national capital /

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On the edge of freedom the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870 / by Smith, David G. (David Grant), 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on "the Edge of Freedom" -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonizationism, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : The Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-1828 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition.…”
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Uncivil disobedience studies in violence and democratic politics / by Kirkpatrick, Jennet, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Violence, American style -- Frontier vigilance committees -- Southern lynch mobs -- Militant abolitionists -- A nation of people or laws.…”
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Lincoln's defense of politics the public man and his opponents in the crisis over slavery / by Schneider, Thomas E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Stephens : slavery, secession, and the higher law -- John C. Calhoun : the politics of interest -- George Fitzhugh : the turn to history -- The attack on Locke -- Henry David Thoreau : the question of political engagement -- William Lloyd Garrison : from disunionist to Lincoln emancipationist -- Frederick Douglass : antislavery constitutionalism and the problem of consent -- Freedom, political and economic -- Between legalism and the higher law -- Lincoln's defense of politics.…”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

Table of Contents: “…Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.…”
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