Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Historical Record of Legal Cases in USABy Marion Gleason McDougall
Length7h 39m
About this audiobook
Fugitive Slaves (1619–1865) is a compact but ambitious historical study tracing the legal, political, and moral history of enslaved people who sought freedom from the first arrival of Africans in Virginia to the destruction of slavery in the Civil War. Written in a documentary, analytic style characteristic of late nineteenth-century historical scholarship, the book follows colonial statutes, constitutional compromises, fugitive slave laws, court decisions, abolitionist resistance, and sectional conflict, showing how the fugitive slave question became a central test of American law and conscience. Marion Gleason McDougall was a scholar working in an era when American historians were increasingly turning to archival evidence and institutional history to explain national development. Her attention to legislation, precedent, and public controversy reflects both the professionalizing methods of her time and a postbellum desire to understand how slavery's contradictions had shaped the republic. The subject also allowed her to illuminate enslaved people not merely as victims of law, but as actors whose flight exposed its injustice. This book is recommended to readers interested in slavery, constitutional history, abolitionism, and the origins of the Civil War. Though concise, it offers a rigorous framework for understanding why fugitive slaves occupied so powerful a place in American political imagination.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length7 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 13, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter I. Legislation and Cases Before the Constitution.
3Chapter II. Legislation from 1789 to 1850.
4Chapter III. Principal Cases from 1789 to 1860.
5Chapter IV. Fugitives and Their Friends.
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6Chapter V. Personal Liberty Laws.
7Chapter VI. The End of the Fugitive Slave Question (1860–1865).
8Appendix A. Colonial Laws Relative to Fugitives.
9Appendix B. National Acts and Propositions Relative to Fugitive Slaves. 1778–1854.
10Appendix C. National Acts and Propositions Relating to Fugitive Slaves. 1860–1864.
11Appendix D. List of Important Fugitive Slave Cases.
12Appendix E. Bibliography of Fugitive Slave Cases and Fugitive Slave Legislation.
13Memorable Quotes
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