Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Further Reading

Books

• Campbell, Stanley W. The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.
• Collison, Gary. Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Cover, Robert. Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975.
• Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1961.
• Hamilton, Holman. Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1964.
• Morris, Thomas D. Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780–1861. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
• Von Frank, Albert J. The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Web Sites

• Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers, and Barry R. Weingast. “The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Symbolic Gesture or Rational Guarantee?” http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/.