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ISBN10: 1584771070, ISBN13: 9781584771074, [publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Examines the Impact of the Idealism of the Personal Liberty Laws of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and WisconsinThe Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social ethical commitment to freedom from slavery and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in the five representative states Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme abolitionist viewpoints of the north.Thomas D. Morris [1938-] taught in the Department of History, Portland State University and is the author of Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860.CONTENTSI. Slavery and Emancipation: the Rise of Conflicting Legal SystemsII. Kidnapping and Fugitives: Early State and Federal ResponsesIII. State 'Interposition' 1820-1830: Pennsylvania and New YorkIV. Assaults Upon the Personal Liberty LawsV. The Antislavery CounterattackVI. The Personal Liberty Laws in the Supreme Court: Prigg v. PennsylvaniaVII. The Pursuit of a Containment Policy, 1842-1850VII. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850IX. Positive Law, Higher Law, and the Via MediaX. Interposition, 1854-1858XI. Habeas Corpus and Total Repudiation 1859-1860XII. ...
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Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2010 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 270 p.

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ISBN10: 1584771070, ISBN13: 9781584771074, [publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 1584771070, ISBN13: 9781584771074, [publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.] Hardcover
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Date: 2010. ISBN-13: 9781584771074; ISBN-10: 1584771070. Morris, Thomas D. Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North 1780-1861. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. xii, 253 pp. Reprinted 2001, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771074. ISBN-10: 1584771070. Hardcover. New. $49.95 * The Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social and ethical commitment to abolition and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in five representative states, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme anti-slavery viewpoints of the north. 2010. ISBN 1584771070 US