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Atrocious judges Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression. / Compiled from the judicial biographies of John lord Campbell ... With an appendix, containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Hildreth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, John Campbell, Baron, 1779-1861.
- Series:
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition.
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Jane, b. 1820?.
- Johnson, Jane.
- Judges--Great Britain.
- Judges.
- Contempt of court--United States.
- Contempt of court.
- Habeas corpus--United States.
- Habeas corpus.
- Slavery--United States--Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (432 p. )
- Other Title:
- Atrocious judges
- Place of Publication:
- New York : and Auburn, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856.
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- Roger Le Brabancon.
- Robert Tresilian.
- Thomas Billing.
- John Fitzjames.
- Thomas Fleming.
- Nicholas Hyde.
- John Brampston.
- Robert Heath.
- Robert Foster.
- Robert Hyde.
- John Kelynge.
- William Scroggs.
- Francis North.
- Edmund Saunders.
- George Jeffreys.
- Robert Wright.
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Passmore Williamson was imprisoned for contempt of court in refusing to answer to a writ of habeas corpus, issued by the U.S. District court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, commanding him to produce the bodies of Jane, Daniel and Isaiah Johnson, slaves of John H. Wheeler. He petitioned the Supreme court of Pennsylvanie for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied.
- Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.
- OCLC:
- 68748642
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