@article{1478941,
      author = {Lubet, Steven, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478941},
      title = {Fugitive Justice : Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on  Trial /},
      abstract = {In this book, Steven Lubet examines, in detail, three  trials on the great issue of fugitive slaves in the 1850's,  the fugitive slave statutes, and how the legal system coped  or failed to cope with the apparent inconsistencies between  the Constitution supporting slavery and its purpose of  guaranteeing certain rights to every man. The first case  occurred in 1851 when a white Pennsylvania miller named  Caster Hanway faced treason charges based on his  participation in the Christiana slave riot. The second  trial was of Anthony Burns in Boston, and the third case  arose out of the 1858 capture of John Price by Kentucky  slavehunters in the abolitionist stronghold of Oberlin,  Ohio. The fugitive slave trials also provide modern readers  with uncomfortable insights into the nature of slavery  itself. With sincere conviction, many northern judges -  including some who claimed to oppose slavery - calmly  considered the quantum of evidence necessary to turn a  human being into property. This book powerfully illuminates  the tremendous bravery of the fugitives, the moral courage  of their rescuers and lawyers, and, alas, the failure of  American legal and political institutions to come to grips  with slavery short of civil war.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059467},
      recid = {1478941},
      pages = {1 online resource (384 p.)},
}