The thanks of the author are due first to Professor Hart, under whose direction and with whose assistance and encouragement the monograph has been prepared; then to Miss Anna B. Thompson, without whose careful training in the Thayer Academy and continued sympathy, the work could not have been undertaken. Many thanks are due also to the authorities of the Library of Harvard College for the use, in the alcoves, of their large and conveniently arranged collection of books and pamphlets on United States History, and to the assistants in the Boston Public and Massachusetts State Libraries for courteous aid. Colonel T. W. Higginson has kindly examined the chapter on the cases from 1850 to 1860, suggesting some interesting details; and Mr. Arthur Gilman has read the whole in proof, and made many valuable suggestions.
_LEGISLATION AND CASES BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION._
§ 2. Regulations as to fugitives (1640-1700) 2
§ 4. Regulations in New England colonies 4
§ 5. Escapes in New England: Attucks case 5
§ 6. Dutch regulations in New Netherlands 6
§ 12. Relations with the mother country 11
§ 13. Regulation under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1788) 12
§ 14. Ordinance for the Northwest Territory (1787) 13
§ 15. The Fugitive question in the Constitutional Conventions 14
§ 16. Effect of the fugitive slave clause in the Constitution 16
§ 17. The first Fugitive Slave Act (1793) 16
§ 21. Period of the Missouri Compromise (1819-1822) 23
§ 22. Status of the question from 1823 to 1847 24
§ 23. Canada and Mexico places of refuge 25
§ 24. Status of fugitives on the high seas 26
§ 25. Kidnapping from 1793 to 1850: Prigg case 27
§ 26. Necessity of more stringent fugitive slave provisions 28
§ 27. Action of Congress from 1847 to 1850 28
§ 28. Slavery in the District of Columbia 29
§ 29. The second Fugitive Slave Act (1850) 29
§ 30. Provisions of the second Fugitive Slave Act 30
§ 35. President Washington's demand for a fugitive (1796) 35
§ 38. Solomon Northup case (about 1830) 37
§ 39. Washington case (between 1840 and 1850) 38
§ 47. Boston and Isaac cases (1837, 1839) 41
§ 50. Van Zandt, Pearl, and Walker cases (1840, 1844) 42
§ 51. Unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 43
§ 52. Principle of the selection of cases 43