(Source: Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge
University Press has recently published a book dealing with i.a. slave law in
the decade before the American Civil War. The eBook
can already be obtained through Cambridge University Press, the paperback and
hardback are due to be published in March 2018.
ABOUT
This magisterial
study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished
historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive slaves had on the
politics of the critical decade leading up to the Civil War. Through the close
reading of diverse sources ranging from government documents to personal
accounts, Richard J. M. Blackett traces the decisions of slaves to escape, the
actions of those who assisted them, the many ways black communities responded
to the capture of fugitive slaves, and how local laws either buttressed or
undermined enforcement of the federal law. Every effort to enforce the law in
northern communities produced levels of subversion that generated national
debate so much so that, on the eve of secession, many in the South, looking
back on the decade, could argue that the law had been effectively subverted by
those individuals and states who assisted fleeing slaves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. The
Slave Power Asserts Its Rights:
1. The fugitive
slave law
2. The law does
its work
3. Compromise
and colonize
Part II.
Freedom's Fires Burn:
4. Missouri and
Illinois
5. Western
Kentucky and Indiana
6. Eastern
Kentucky and Ohio
7. Southeast
Pennsylvania
8. Eastern shore
of Maryland and Philadelphia
9. New York
10.
Massachusetts
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
More information
on the website
of Cambridge University Press
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