http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (x, 422 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Perpetual servitude -- Foundations of freedom -- Impact of the revolution -- Slavery and the constitution -- Gradual emancipation -- National policy -- Slavery and political power -- Foreign slave trade -- Migrations to the free states -- The old northwest -- The Missouri contest -- Insurrections -- Free negroes -- Colonization -- Voices from the west -- Pulpit and courtroom: an anthology -- Impulses for reform -- Lane Seminary -- William Lloyd Garrison -- The American Anti-Slavery Society -- Theodore Weld: the agency system -- Angelina Grimke: women's rights -- James Gillespie Birney -- Civil rights -- The Prudence Crandall case -- Lynch law -- The higher law -- The capital of the nation -- Petitions -- American slavery as it is -- Birney and Thome -- General literature -- Women in the movement -- American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society -- The Liberty Party -- Fugitive slaves and the people -- Fugitive slaves and the law -- Negro leaders -- Here the slave found freedom -- The churches -- Labor -- Free soil -- The road to freedom.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law