CHAPTER I.
LEGISLATION AND CASES BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION.
§1.Elements of colonial slavery
§2.Regulations as to fugitives (1640-1700)
§3.Treatment of fugitives
§4.Regulations in New England colonies
§5.Escapes in New England: Attucks case
§6.Dutch regulations in New Netherlands
§7.Escapes from New Amsterdam
§8.Intercolonial regulations
§9.Intercolonial cases
§10.International relations
§11.International cases
§12.Relations with the mother country
§13.Regulation under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1788)
§14.Ordinance for the Northwest Territory (1787)
§15.The Fugitive question in the Constitutional Conventions

CHAPTER II.
LEGISLATION FROM 1789 TO 1850.
§16.Effect of the fugitive slave clause in the Constitution
§17.The first Fugitive Slave Act (1793)
§18.Discussion of the first act
§19.Propositions of 1797 and 1802
§20.Propositions from 1817 to 1822
§21.Period of the Missouri Compromise (1819-1822)
§22.Status of the question from 1823 to 1847
§23.Canada and Mexico places of refuge
§24.Status of fugitives on the high seas
§25.Kidnapping from 1793 to 1850: Prigg case
§26.Necessity of more stringent fugitive slave provisions
§27.Action of Congress from 1847 to 1850
§28.Slavery in the District of Columbia
§29.The second Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
§30.Provisions of the second Fugitive Slave Act
§31.Arguments for the bill
§32.Arguments against the bill

CHAPTER III.
PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860.
§33.Change in character of cases
§34.The first case of rescue (1793)
§35.President Washington's demand for a fugitive (1796)
§36.Kidnapping cases
§37.Jones case (1836)
§38.Solomon Northup case (about 1830)
§39.Washington case (between 1840 and 1850)
§40.Oberlin case (1841)
§41.Interference and rescues
§42.Chickasaw rescue (1836)
§43.Philadelphia case (1838)
§44.Latimer case (1842)
§45.Ottoman case (1846)
§46.Interstate relations
§47.Boston and Isaac cases (1837, 1839)
§48.Ohio and Kentucky case (1848)
§49.Prosecutions
§50.Van Zandt, Pearl, and Walker cases (1840, 1844)
§51.Unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
§52.Principle of the selection of cases
§53.Hamlet case (1850)
§54.Sims case (1851)
§55.Burns case (1854)
§56.Garner case (1856)
§57.Shadrach case (1851)
§58.Jerry McHenry case (1851)
§59.Oberlin-Wellington case (1858)
§60.Christiana case (1851)
§61.Miller case (1851)
§62.John Brown in Kansas (1858)

CHAPTER IV.
FUGITIVES AND THEIR FRIENDS.
§63.Methods of escape
§64.Reasons for escape
§65.Conditions of slave life
§66.Escapes to the woods
§67.Escapes to the North
§68.Use of protection papers
§69.Fugitives disguised as whites: Craft case
§70.Underground Railroad
§71.Rise and growth of the system
§72.Methods pursued
§73.Colored agents of the Underground Railroad
§74.Prosecutions of agents
§75.Formal organization
§76.General effect of escapes

CHAPTER V.
PERSONAL LIBERTY LAWS.
§77.Character of the personal liberty laws
§78.Acts passed before the Prigg decision (1793-1842)
§79.Acts passed between the Prigg decision and the second Fugitive Slave Law (1842-1850)
§80.Acts occasioned by the law of 1850 (1850-1860)
§81.Massachusetts acts
§82.Review of the acts by States
§83.Effect of the personal liberty laws

CHAPTER VI.
THE END OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE QUESTION (1860-1865).
§85.The Fugitive Slave Law in the crisis of 1860-61
§86.Proposition to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law
§87.Propositions to repeal or amend the law
§88.The question of slaves of rebels
§89.Slavery attacked in Congress
§90.Confiscation bills
§91.Confiscation provisions extended
§92.Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
§93.Fugitives in loyal slave States
§94.Typical cases
§95.Question discussed in Congress
§96.Arrests by civil officers
§97.Denial of the use of jails in the District of Columbia
§98.Abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia
§99.Regulations against kidnapping
§100.Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Acts
§101.Early propositions to repeal the acts
§102.Discussion of the repeal bill in the House
§103.Repeal bills in the Senate
§104.The repeal act and the thirteenth amendment
§105.Educating effect of the controversy

APPENDICES.

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.