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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"fugitive slave law"”.
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… the Northern free states and the Southern slave states was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. For decades slaveholders had complained of the difficulties encountered in reclaiming their fugitive slaves and demanded stronger legislation to deal with the problem. Northerners, however, did not …
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
… of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position of the new economic historians, most …
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Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870)
… and compared. Between the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 and the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, advocates were preparing African Americans for full citizenship (suffrage rights, educational access, and home ownership) in these three communities and throughout New York State. Using …
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Fulcrum of the Union: The Border South and the Secession Crisis, 1859-1861
The Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri spurned secession in 1860-61, which has led scholars to conclude that these four slaveholding states were safely ensconced in the Union column from the beginning of the crisis that drew the other slaveholding states into the …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
… and marginalized to counter complicity in Fugitive Slave Law politics. Ultimately, Melville uses the Typee to shed light on American ideas regarding assimilation. And Twain plays the naïve but brash exceptional American abroad to demonstrate the way American travelers see the places and …
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A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature
<p>This dissertation considers maroons—enslaved people who fled from slavery and self-exiled to places like swamps and forests—in the textual and historical worlds of the pre-Civil War United States. I examine a counter-archive of US literature that imagines marronage as offering alternate spaces …