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Chapter 3 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)

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11 chapters total

  1. Chapter 1Chapter 1 LEGISLATION AND CASES BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION.
  2. Chapter 2Chapter 2 LEGISLATION FROM 1789 TO 1850.
  3. Chapter 3Chapter 3 PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860.

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