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CHAPTER I. LEGISLATION AND CASES BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION.

Treatment of the Fugitives.

Escapes in New England.

Dutch and Intercolonial Regulations.

Intercolonial Cases.

International Cases.

English Law. Northwest Ordinance.

Fugitive Question in Constitutional Conventions.

CHAPTER II. LEGISLATION FROM 1789 TO 1850.

The First Fugitive Slave Act.

Propositions of 1797 and 1802.

Propositions from 1817 to 1822.

Period of the Missouri Compromise.

Canada and Mexico Places of Refuge.

Kidnapping from 1793-1850. Prigg Case.

The Second Fugitive Slave Act.

Arguments for the Bill.

Arguments against the Bill.

CHAPTER III. PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860.

The First Case of Rescue.

Kidnapping.

Interference and Rescues.

Interstate Relations.

Prosecutions. Act of 1850.

Sims and Burns.

Garner and Shadrach.

Rescues.

Castner Hanway. John Brown.

CHAPTER IV. FUGITIVES AND THEIR FRIENDS.

Reasons for Escape.

Escapes to the North.

Fugitives disguised as Whites.

The Underground Railroad.

Operations "Underground."

CHAPTER V. PERSONAL LIBERTY LAWS.

Analysis.

Review of the Acts by States.

CHAPTER VI. THE END OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE QUESTION (1860-1865) .

Enforcement. Slaves of Disloyal Men.

Confiscation Bills.

The Emancipation Proclamation.

Fugitives from Loyal Slave States.

District of Columbia.

Repeal of the Acts proposed.

Discussion of Repeal Bills.

Repeal of the Acts.

APPENDIX A. COLONIAL LAWS RELATIVE TO FUGITIVES.

APPENDIX B. NATIONAL ACTS AND PROPOSITIONS RELATIVE TO FUGITIVE SLAVES. 1778-1854.

Treaties and First Act.

Bills and Propositions.

Prigg Decision. Resolutions.

Resolutions. Bill of 1850.

Second Fugitive Slave Act.

Act of 1850. Resolutions.

APPENDIX C. NATIONAL ACTS AND PROPOSITIONS RELATING TO FUGITIVE SLAVES. 1860-1864.

APPENDIX D. LIST OF IMPORTANT FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES.

APPENDIX E. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES AND FUGITIVE SLAVE LEGISLATION.

INDEX.