Author: James Augustus DorrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Objections to the Act of Congress, Commonly Called the Fugitive Slave Law Answered, in a Letter to Hon. Washington Hunt ...
Author: James Augustus DorrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Objections to the Act of Congress commonly called the Fugitive Slave Law, answered in a letter to ... W. Hunt, etc
Author: James A. DORRThe War Before the War
Author: Andrew DelbancoPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book Selection Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award A New York Times Critics' Best Book "Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates This book tells the story of America’s original sin—slavery—through politics, law, literature, and above all, through the eyes of enslavedblack people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, thereby forcing the nation to confront the truth about itself. The struggle over slavery divided not only the American nation but also the hearts and minds of individual citizens faced with the timeless problem of when to submit to unjust laws and when to resist. The War Before the War illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.
The Captive's Quest for Freedom
Author: R. J. M. BlackettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
Anthony Burns
Author: Charles Emery StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Fugitive Slave Law and It's Victims (Illustrated)
Author: American Anti-Slavery SocietyPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730989669
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted by Congress in September, 1850, received the signature of HOWELL COBB, [of Georgia,] as Speaker of the House of Representatives, of WILLIAM R. KING, [of Alabama,] as President of the Senate, and was "approved," September 18th, of that year, by MILLARD FILLMORE, Acting President of the United States. The authorship of the Bill is generally ascribed to James M. Mason, Senator from Virginia. Before proceeding to the principal object of this tract, it is proper to give a synopsis of the Act itself, which was well called, by the New York Evening Post, "An Act for the Encouragement of Kidnapping." It is in ten sections.
Poems on Slavery
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Supreme Injustice
Author: Paul FinkelmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982088
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story—upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the incentives created by circumstances in his private life. Finkelman uses census data and other sources to reveal that Justice Marshall aggressively bought and sold slaves throughout his lifetime—a fact that biographers have ignored. Justice Story never owned slaves and condemned slavery while riding circuit, and yet on the high court he remained silent on slave trade cases and ruled against blacks who sued for freedom. Although Justice Taney freed many of his own slaves, he zealously and consistently opposed black freedom, arguing in Dred Scott that free blacks had no Constitutional rights and that slave owners could move slaves into the Western territories. Finkelman situates this infamous holding within a solid record of support for slavery and hostility to free blacks. Supreme Injustice boldly documents the entanglements that alienated three major justices from America’s founding ideals and embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.
Slave Life in Georgia
Author: John BrownThe Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave
Author: John ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Thompson, born on a Maryland plantation in 1812, escaped to Pennsylvania but fell into a harried itinerant pattern. The passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act put him in danger even in free states ; after six months of work arranged by a Quaker, he and his companion were forced to leave by the appearance of slave hunters. Thompson started to make a life in Philadelphia, marrying and pursuing an education, only to conclude once more that he must run when several other fugitives in his neighborhood were arrested. This time he went to sea, joining a whaling vessel out of New Bedford, which comprises most of the final chapters..."--Dealer's description.