Fugitive Slaves

Chapter 1 LEGISLATION AND CASES BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION.

§ 1. Elements of colonial slavery § 2. Regulations as to fugitives (1640-1700) § 3. Treatment of fugitives § 4. Regulations in New England colonies § 5. Escapes in New England: Attucks case § 6. Dutch regulations in New Netherlands § 7. Escapes from New Amsterdam § 8. Intercolonial regulations § 9. Intercolonial cases § 10. International relations § 11. International cases § 12. Relations with the mother country § 13. Regulation under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1788) § 14. Ordinance for the Northwest Territory (1787) § 15. The Fugitive question in the Constitutional Conventions

Chapter 2 LEGISLATION FROM 1789 TO 1850.

§ 16. Effect of the fugitive slave clause in the Constitution § 17. The first Fugitive Slave Act (1793) § 18. Discussion of the first act § 19. Propositions of 1797 and 1802 § 20. Propositions from 1817 to 1822 § 21. Period of the Missouri Compromise (1819-1822) § 22. Status of the question from 1823 to 1847 § 23. Canada and Mexico places of refuge § 24. Status of fugitives on the high seas § 25. Kidnapping from 1793 to 1850: Prigg case § 26. Necessity of more stringent fugitive slave provisions § 27. Action of Congress from 1847 to 1850 § 28. Slavery in the District of Columbia § 29. The second Fugitive Slave Act (1850) § 30. Provisions of the second Fugitive Slave Act § 31. Arguments for the bill § 32. Arguments against the bill

Chapter 3 PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860.

§ 33. Change in character of cases § 34. The first case of rescue (1793) § 35. President Washington's demand for a fugitive (1796) § 36. Kidnapping cases § 37. Jones case (1836) § 38. Solomon Northup case (about 1830) § 39. Washington case (between 1840 and 1850) § 40. Oberlin case (1841) § 41. Interference and rescues § 42. Chickasaw rescue (1836) § 43. Philadelphia case (1838) § 44. Latimer case (1842) § 45. Ottoman case (1846) § 46. Interstate relations § 47. Boston and Isaac cases (1837, 1839) § 48. Ohio and Kentucky case (1848) § 49. Prosecutions § 50. Van Zandt, Pearl, and Walker cases (1840, 1844) § 51. Unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 § 52. Principle of the selection of cases § 53. Hamlet case (1850) § 54. Sims case (1851) § 55. Burns case (1854) § 56. Garner case (1856) § 57. Shadrach case (1851) § 58. Jerry McHenry case (1851) § 59. Oberlin-Wellington case (1858) § 60. Christiana case (1851) § 61. Miller case (1851) § 62. John Brown in Kansas (1858)