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Abolitionism and American law / edited with introductions by John R. McKivigan.

Contributor(s): McKivigan, John R, 1949-
Material type: TextTextSeries: History of the American abolitionist movement: 5.Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1999Description: xvii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0815331096 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History | Antislavery movements -- United States -- History | Abolitionists -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 342.73/087 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Slavery provisions of the U.S. Constitution : means for emancipation / John Alvis -- Compromise of 1787 / Slaughton Lynd -- Quok Walker, Mumbet, and the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts / Arthur Zilversmit -- Was slavery unconstitutional before the thirteenth amendment? Lysander Spooner's theory of interpretation / Randy E. Barnett -- Legal positivism, abolitionist litigation, and the New Jersey Slave case of 1845 / Daniel R. Ernst -- Slavery and abolition before the United States Supreme Court, 1820-1860 / William M. Wiecek -- Indiana Supreme Court and the struggle against slavery / Sandra Boyd Williams -- Kidnapping of John Davis and the adoption of the fugitive slave law of 1793 ; Prigg v. Pennsylvania and the northern state courts : anti-slavery use of a pro-slavery decision ; State constitutional protections of liberty and the antebellum New Jersey Supreme Court : Chief Justice Hornblower and the fugitive state law / Paul Finkelman -- Fugitive slave law : a double paradox / Larry Gara -- Booth cases: final step to the Civil War / Jenni Parrish -- Personal liberty laws and sectional crisis : 1850-1861 / Norman L. Rosenberg -- Abolitionists and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 / James M. McPherson -- Abolitionist political and constitutional theory and the reconstruction amendments / David A.J. Richards.

"A Garland series"--Series title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Slavery provisions of the U.S. Constitution : means for emancipation / John Alvis -- Compromise of 1787 / Slaughton Lynd -- Quok Walker, Mumbet, and the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts / Arthur Zilversmit -- Was slavery unconstitutional before the thirteenth amendment? Lysander Spooner's theory of interpretation / Randy E. Barnett -- Legal positivism, abolitionist litigation, and the New Jersey Slave case of 1845 / Daniel R. Ernst -- Slavery and abolition before the United States Supreme Court, 1820-1860 / William M. Wiecek -- Indiana Supreme Court and the struggle against slavery / Sandra Boyd Williams -- Kidnapping of John Davis and the adoption of the fugitive slave law of 1793 ; Prigg v. Pennsylvania and the northern state courts : anti-slavery use of a pro-slavery decision ; State constitutional protections of liberty and the antebellum New Jersey Supreme Court : Chief Justice Hornblower and the fugitive state law / Paul Finkelman -- Fugitive slave law : a double paradox / Larry Gara -- Booth cases: final step to the Civil War / Jenni Parrish -- Personal liberty laws and sectional crisis : 1850-1861 / Norman L. Rosenberg -- Abolitionists and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 / James M. McPherson -- Abolitionist political and constitutional theory and the reconstruction amendments / David A.J. Richards.

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