Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial

by Steven Lubet

Book Overview

During the tumultuous decade before the Civil War, no issue was more divisive than the pursuit and return of fugitive slaves--a practice enforced under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When free Blacks and their abolitionist allies intervened, prosecutions and trials inevitably followed. These cases involved high legal, political, and--most of all--human drama, with runaways desperate for freedom, their defenders seeking recourse to a "higher law"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047044
• ISBN13: 9780674047044
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"