Freedom's conditions in the U.S.-Canadian borderlands in the age of emancipation / edited by Tony Freyer and Lyndsay Campbell.
2011
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Freedom's conditions in the U.S.-Canadian borderlands in the age of emancipation / edited by Tony Freyer and Lyndsay Campbell.
Published
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
KF4757 .F74 2011
ISBN
9781594607721 (cloth : alk. paper)
1594607729 (cloth : alk. paper)
1594607729 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xiii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)651011961
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Contributor Biographies
xi
1.
Introduction / Lyndsay Campbell
3
The United States
11
Canada
22
Contributions
28
References
30
I.
The Shadows of Law: Governance in the Borderlands
2.
Constituting the Free-State Borderlands: New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio / Tony Freyer
35
Ambivalent State Sovereignty and States' Rights
36
New York
41
Pennsylvania
47
Ohio
54
Conclusion
58
References
60
Appendix---County Population Maps
65
3.
The State the Slaveholders Made: Regulating Fugitive Slaves in the Early Republic / Gautham Rao
85
Runaway Regulation: The Public Good
88
"Protecting and Supporting" Private Property Rights
94
Conclusion: Fugitive Slaves and the Early American State
100
References
103
Published Cases and Statutes
108
Unpublished Cases
108
Archival Collections
108
4.
Governance in the Borderlands: Upper Canadian Legal Institutions / Lyndsay Campbell
109
Upper Canada
111
The Growth of the State
115
Courts
117
Law and Lawyers
120
Institutions of Local Governance
121
Implications for Governance and the Administration of Justice
122
Policing
125
Conclusions: Extradition
130
References
134
5.
British Rights and Liberal Law in Canada's Fugitive Slave Debate, 1833-1843 / Bradley Miller
141
Introduction
141
Imperial Structures and Fugitive Slaves
144
British Justice and British Rights
147
Liberal Law and the Fugitive Slave Question
154
The Imperial and Colonial Reply: Individualism, Liberalism, and Equality
157
Conclusion
165
References
165
II.
Persons, Places
6.
Constrained Choices: New England Slavery Decisions in the Antebellum Era / Aviam Soifer
173
Immediate Freedom?
178
Choice of Law Issues
180
Reprise: Betty's Case
188
Conclusion
191
References
191
7.
The Northern Borderlands: Canada West / Lyndsay Campbell
195
Threads in Legal Historiography
199
The Parameters of Citizenship
204
Education
210
The Criminal Justice System
214
The Impact of Prejudice
220
References
220
8.
The Judicial Construction of Whiteness in the Borderlands of the Northwest Territory, 1803-1860 / Stephen Middleton
227
References
252
9.
Willis v. Jolliffe: Love and Slavery on the South Carolina-Ohio Borderlands / Daphne Fruchtman
257
Amy and Elijah
258
Elijah's First Will
260
Dr. Brisbane
262
Cincinnati
263
John Jolliffe
266
Elijah's Second Will
268
The Jacob Strader
269
In the South Carolina Courts: Round One
270
Round Two
273
Round Three
276
Conclusion
279
References
281
Conclusion / Lyndsay Campbell
285
Index
293