Free Men All : The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1861 by Thomas D. Morris (1966, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-100801815053

ISBN-139780801815058

eBay Product ID (ePID)1326461

Product Key Features

Number of Pages265 Pages

Publication NameFree Men All : the Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1861

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1966

SubjectUnited States / General, African American

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorThomas D. Morris

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width7.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN73-008126

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal342.73/085

SynopsisExamines the Impact of the Idealism of the Personal Liberty Laws of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin The Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social ethical commitment to freedom from slavery and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in the five representative states Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme abolitionist viewpoints of the north. Thomas D. Morris 1938-] taught in the Department of History, Portland State University and is the author of Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. CONTENTS I. Slavery and Emancipation: the Rise of Conflicting Legal Systems II. Kidnapping and Fugitives: Early State and Federal Responses III. State "Interposition" 1820-1830: Pennsylvania and New York IV. Assaults Upon the Personal Liberty Laws V. The Antislavery Counterattack VI. The Personal Liberty Laws in the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania VII. The Pursuit of a Containment Policy, 1842-1850 VII. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 IX. Positive Law, Higher Law, and the Via Media X. Interposition, 1854-1858 XI. Habeas Corpus and Total Repudiation 1859-1860 XII. Denouement Appendix Bibliography Index

LC Classification NumberKF4545.S5