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Prigg v. Pennsylvania : slavery, the Supreme Court, and the ambivalent constitution H. Robert Baker
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KF 228 .P745 B35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, H. Robert.
- Series:
- Landmark law cases & American society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prigg, Edward--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Prigg, Edward.
- Pennsylvania--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Pennsylvania.
- Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 202 p. ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Prigg vs. Pennsylvania
- Prigg versus Pennsylvania
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2012.
- Contents:
- A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset
- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause
- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns
- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826
- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence
- Arresting Margaret
- Arresting Edward Prigg
- Before the court
- Deciding Prigg
- After the court.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700618644 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0700618643 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 788282621
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