Freedom's conditions in the U.S.-Canadian borderlands in the age of emancipation / edited by Tony Freyer and Lyndsay Campbell.

Author/creator Freyer, Tony Allan
Other author Campbell, Lyndsay.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxiii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Tony Freyer and Lyndsay Campbell -- Constituting the free-state borderlands : New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio / Tony Freyer -- The state the slaveholders made : regulating fugitive slaves in the early republic / Gautham Rao -- Governance in the borderlands : upper Canadian legal institutions / Lyndsay Campbell -- British rights and liberal law in Canada's fugitive slave debate, 1833-1843 / Bradley Miller -- Constrained choices : New England slavery decisions in the antebellum era / Aviam Soifer -- The northern borderlands : Canada West / Lyndsay Campbell -- The judicial construction of whiteness in the borderlands of the Northwest Territory, 1803-1860 / Stephen Middleton -- Willis v. Jolliffe : love and slavery on the South Carolina-Ohio borderlands / John Wertheimer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010030053
ISBN9781594607721 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1594607729 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks KF4757 .F74 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold