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2023

Nothing more than freedom : the failure of abolition in American law

Perrone, Giuliana, 1982- author.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023

 

2022

Fugitive movements : commemorating the Denmark Vesey affair and Black radical antislavery in the Atlantic world

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022]

 

2022

Legal spectatorship : slavery and the visual culture of domestic violence

Moore, Kelli, 1976- author.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022

 

2021

Beacons of liberty : international free soil and the fight for racial justice in antebellum America

Abbott, Elena K., author

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

 

2021

Until justice be done : America's first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Masur, Kate, author
First edition
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]

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2021

The African experience in Colonial Virginia : essays on the 1619 arrival and the legacy of slavery

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

 

2021

The rule of law in the United States : an unfinished project of Black liberation

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Oxford ; London ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Hart, 2021

 

2019

Blind no more : African American resistance, free-soil politics, and the coming of the Civil War

Wells, Jonathan Daniel, 1969- author.

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]

 

2018

The captive's quest for freedom : fugitive slaves, the 1850 fugitive slave law, and the politics of slavery

Blackett, R. J. M., 1943- author.

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

2017

African American lives in St. Louis, 1763/1865 : slavery, freedom and the West

Smith, Dale Edwyna, author

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

 

2017

Homicide justified : the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world

Fede, Andrew, author

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2017]

 

2017

Slavery and freedom in Texas : stories from the courtroom, 1821-1871

Gillmer, Jason A., author

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]

 

2016

Before Dred Scott : slavery and legal culture in the American confluence, 1787-1857

Twitty, Anne Silverwood, 1980- author.

New York NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016

 

2016

Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio

Taylor, Nikki Marie, 1972- author.

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]

 

2015

Beyond freedom's reach : kidnapping in the twilight of slavery

Rothman, Adam, 1971-

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015

 

2015

The Atlantic Connection : a History of the Atlantic World, 1450-1900

Suranyi, Anna



 

2014

The Passenger Cases and the commerce clause : immigrants, blacks, and states' rights in antebellum America

Freyer, Tony Allan, author

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2014]

 

2013

Human trafficking

Farnham, surrey ; Burlington, vt : Ashgate, 2013

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2013

The Fugitive Slave Law in the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin : American society transforms its culture

Del Guercio, Gerardo, 1977-



 

2013

Heaven's soldiers : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida

Marotti, Frank, 1954-

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]

 

2013

Making freedom : the Underground Railroad and the politics of slavery

Blackett, R. J. M., 1943- author.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

 

2013

Encyclopedia of race and racism

2nd ed
Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2013

 

2012

People Without Rights (Routledge Revivals) : an Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South

Fede, Andrew.



 

2012

Congress and the crisis of the 1850s

 

2012

In the shadow of the gallows : race, crime, and American civic identity

DeLombard, Jeannine Marie.
1st ed


 

2012

Almost free : a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia

Wolf, Eva Sheppard, 1969-



 

2011

Forging freedom : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston

Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti, author

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]

 

2011

Lincoln apostate : the Matson slave case

McKirdy, Charles Robert, 1943-



 

2010

Who speaks for Margaret Garner?

Reinhardt, Mark



 

2010

Border war : fighting over slavery before the Civil War

Harrold, Stanley, author

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]

 

2010

Fugitive justice : runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial

Lubet, Steven.



 

2010

The laws of slavery in Texas : historical documents and essays

1st ed


 

2010

The promises of liberty : the history and contemporary relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment

 

2009

Criminal injustice : slaves and free Blacks in Georgia's criminal justice system

McNair, Glenn, 1962-



 

2009

Neither fugitive nor free : Atlantic slavery, freedom suits, and the legal culture of travel

Wong, Edlie L



 

2006

The rescue of Joshua Glover : a fugitive slave, the constitution, and the coming of the civil war

Baker, H. Robert



 

2002

Freedom's promise : ex-slave families and citizenship in the Age of Emancipation

Regosin, Elizabeth Ann



 

2001

Shaping America : U.S. history to 1877.

Dallas, TX : Dallas County Community College District, 2001

 

2001

The slaveholding republic : an account of the United States government's relations to slavery

Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward), 1920-1997.



 

2000

Encyclopedia of the American constitution

2nd ed. / Adam Winkler, associate editor for the 2nd ed
Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2000

 

2000

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

Second edition / Adam Winkler, associate editor for the second edition
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, [2000]

 

1999

When sorry isn't enough : the controversy over apologies and reparations for human injustice

 

1997

White women, Black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South

Hodes, Martha, 1958-



 

1860

Report of the Lemmon slave case : containing points and arguments of counsel on both sides, and opinions of all the judges

New York (State). Court of Appeals.



 

1859

An appeal for freedom : made in the Assembly of the state of New York, March 7th, 1859

Spencer, Charles S.



 

1852

The Boston kidnapping : a discourse to commemorate the rendition of Thomas Simms, delivered on the first anniversary thereof, April 12, 1852, before the Committee of Vigilance, at the Melodeon in Bost

Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860



 

1847

Reclamation of fugitives from service : an argument for the defendant, submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at the December term, 1846, in the case of Wharton Jones vs. John Vanzandt

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873.



 

1841

Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieu

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.