Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution

by H. Robert Baker

Book Overview

Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children--one of them born in Pennsylvania--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700618651
• ISBN13: 9780700618651
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"