Fugitive Slaves

§ 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

§ 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

§ 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)