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Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Historical Record of Legal Cases in USABy Marion Gleason McDougall

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Length7h 39m

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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.

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