The Slave Catchers, enforcement of the Fugitive slave law, 1850-1860 / Stanley W. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Stanley W.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Fugitive slave law (1850).

United States.

Fugitive slaves--United States.

Fugitive slaves.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 236 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, [1970].

Contents:

Background and Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law

The Constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

The Fugitive Slave Law and Public Opinion, 1850-1854

The Fugitive Slave Law and Public Opinion, 1854-1860

Executive Policy and the Fugitive Slave Law

Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860

Non-Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law: Slave Rescues, 1850-1860

The Personal Liberty Laws and Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law

The Fugitive Slave Law: From Secession to Repeal.

Notes:

"Jacket photograph courtesy of The Bettemann Archive, Inc., New York."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-226) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislsk Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0807811416

OCLC:

100856