EDITOR'S PREFACE.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. LEGISLATION AND CASES BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION.

CHAPTER II. LEGISLATION FROM 1789 TO 1850.

CHAPTER III. PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860.

CHAPTER IV. FUGITIVES AND THEIR FRIENDS.

CHAPTER V. PERSONAL LIBERTY LAWS.

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

APPENDIX A. COLONIAL LAWS RELATIVE TO FUGITIVES.

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

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.

FOOTNOTES.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE COLLEGIATE INSTRUCTION
OF WOMEN
Fay House Monographs
No. 3

FUGITIVE SLAVES (1619-1865) BY MARION GLEASON McDOUGALL

PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
BOSTON, U.S.A.
PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY
1891

Copyright, 1891,
By the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.