Chapter 1 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