Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 /
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
c2009
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude to conflict : the Marshall court and The antelope
- The Marshall court and federalism
- Sectionalism and the rise of the second-party system
- The Supreme Court in the early 1840s
- United States v. The Amistad
- Slavery, the commerce power, and Groves v. Slaughter
- The problem of fugitive slaves
- Assessment
- Slavery and territorial expansion
- The controversy over fugitive slaves, 1843-1853
- The Supreme Court in 1846
- Revisiting the commerce power
- The ongoing struggle over fugitive slaves
- Prelude to Dred Scott : Strader v. Graham and the doctrine of reattachment
- Assessment
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Anthony Burns affair, and the demise of the second-party system
- The Supreme Court in the mid-1850s
- Ableman v. Booth, part 1 : northern nullification
- Dred Scott, part 1: the road to the Supreme Court
- The court on the brink
- Sectionalism on the march
- Dred Scott, part 2 : reargument and reconsideration
- Dred Scott, part 3 : the opinions of the justices
- Dred Scott, part 4 : the reaction to the court's decision
- Ableman v. Booth, part 2 : the court decides
- The election of 1860
- Kentucky v. Dennison and the problem of extradition