Atrocious judges [electronic resource] Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression. / Compiled from the judicial biographies of John lord Campbell ... With an appendix, containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Hildreth.
Campbell, John Campbell, Baron, 1779-1861.; Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865.; Williamson, Passmore,
1856
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Title Atrocious judges [electronic resource] Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression. / Compiled from the judicial biographies of John lord Campbell ... With an appendix, containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Hildreth.
Author Campbell, John Campbell, Baron, 1779-1861.
Imprint New York : and Auburn, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856.
Language English
Description 432 p. ; 19 cm.
Note Passmore Williamson was imprisoned for contempt of court in refusing to answer to a writ of habeas corpus, issued by the U.S. District court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, commanding him to produce the bodies of Jane, Daniel and Isaiah Johnson, slaves of John H. Wheeler. He petitioned the Supreme court of Pennsylvanie for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied.
Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Added Author Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865.
Williamson, Passmore,
Series Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive
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Introduction.
Roger Le Brabancon.
Robert Tresilian.
Thomas Billing.
John Fitzjames.
Thomas Fleming.
Nicholas Hyde.
John Brampston.
Robert Heath.
Robert Foster.
Robert Hyde.
John Kelynge.
William Scroggs.
Francis North.
Edmund Saunders.
George Jeffreys.
Robert Wright.
Appendix.

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