A study of how American law treated people who escaped from slavery, from colonial statutes through the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 to the end of the question during the Civil War. McDougall examines the principal court cases, the fugitives and the friends who helped them, and the Northern personal liberty laws, with appendices listing laws and cases.
An early scholarly monograph of 1891, still useful for students of slavery, abolition and constitutional history. Download the free EPUB.