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

ISBN: 0199913609

ISBN13: 9780199913602

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

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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...

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