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A defence for fugitive slaves against the acts of Congress of February 12, 1793 and September 18, 1850
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Spooner, Lysander 1808-1887
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Boston : Bela Marsh, 1850.
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1 online resource (72 pages).
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The slave-catcher caught in the meshes of eternal law
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Rand, Asa 1783-1871
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Cleveland : Steam-Press of Smead and Cowles, 1852.
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Running a thousand miles for freedom, or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery.
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Craft, William
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London : William Tweedie, 1860.
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iv, 111 pages : portrait.
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The refugees from slavery in Canada West report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission
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Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley) 1801-1876
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[Boston? : s.n.], 1864
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0665285698
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The duty of disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act : an appeal to the legislators of Massachusetts
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Child, Lydia Maria Francis 1802-1880
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Boston : American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
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Ellen Craft : disguised as a young planter, she escaped to Boston in 1848 [illegible] her husband with her as a valet
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Fugitive justice runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial
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Lubet, Steven.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
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The fugitive slave law, tried by the Old and New Testaments
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Thompson, Joseph P. (Joseph Parrish) 1819-1879
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New York : W. Harned, 1850.
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The fugitive slave bill, its history and unconstitutionality : with an account of the seizure and enslavement of James Hamlet, and his subsequent restoration to liberty
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New-York : William Harned, 1850.
Edition:
3rd ed.
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Trial of Thomas Sims on an issue of personal liberty : on the claim of James Potter, of Georgia, against him, as an alleged fugitive from service : arguments of Robert Rantoul, Jr. and Charles G. Loring, with the decision of George T. Curtis, Boston, April 7-11, 1851
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Rantoul, Robert 1805-1852
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Boston : Wm. S. Damrell and Company, 1851.
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