Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis

by Angela F. Murphy

Book Overview

This compelling micro-history explores how the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affected fugitive slaves, free blacks, abolitionists, and northern white citizens. The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis is a narrative of the events surrounding the arrest of William "Jerry" Henry on October 1, 1851. Jerry, who thought he was to be charged with a minor infraction committed in Syracuse, went...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199913609
• ISBN13: 9780199913602
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"