CHAPTER III.

_PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860._

Sec. 33. Change in character of cases 34

Sec. 34. The first case of rescue (1793) 35

Sec. 35. President Washington's demand for a fugitive (1796) 35

Sec. 36. Kidnapping cases 36

Sec. 37. Jones case (1836) 36

Sec. 38. Solomon Northup case (about 1830) 37

Sec. 39. Washington case (between 1840 and 1850) 38

Sec. 40. Oberlin case (1841) 38

Sec. 41. Interference and rescues 38

Sec. 42. Chickasaw rescue (1836) 38

Sec. 43. Philadelphia case (1838) 39

Sec. 44. Latimer case (1842) 39

Sec. 45. Ottoman case (1846) 40

Sec. 46. Interstate relations 41

Sec. 47. Boston and Isaac cases (1837, 1839) 41

Sec. 48. Ohio and Kentucky cases (1848) 41

Sec. 49. Prosecutions 42

Sec. 50. Van Zandt, Pearl, and Walker cases (1840, 1844) 42

Sec. 51. Unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 43

Sec. 52. Principle of the selection of cases 43

Sec. 53. Hamlet case (1850) 43

Sec. 54. Sims case (1851) 44

Sec. 55. Burns case (1854) 45

Sec. 56. Garner case (1856) 46

Sec. 57. Shadrach case (1851) 47

Sec. 58. Jerry McHenry case (1851) 48

Sec. 59. Oberlin-Wellington case (1858) 49

Sec. 60. Christiana case (1851) 50

Sec. 61. Miller case (1851) 51

Sec. 62. John Brown in Kansas (1858) 51