CHAPTER VI.

_THE END OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE QUESTION (1860-1865)._

Sec. 85. The Fugitive Slave Law in the crisis of 1860-61 71

Sec. 86. Proposition to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law 72

Sec. 87. Propositions to repeal or amend the law 73

Sec. 88. The question of slaves of rebels 73

Sec. 89. Slavery attacked in Congress 74

Sec. 90. Confiscation bills 75

Sec. 91. Confiscation provisions extended 75

Sec. 92. Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 77

Sec. 93. Fugitives in loyal slave States 77

Sec. 94. Typical cases 78

Sec. 95. Question discussed in Congress 78

Sec. 96. Arrests by civil officers 80

Sec. 97. Denial of the use of jails in the District of Columbia 80

Sec. 98. Abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia 82

Sec. 99. Regulations against kidnapping 82

Sec. 100. Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Acts 83

Sec. 101. Early propositions to repeal the acts 83

Sec. 102. Discussion of the repeal bill in the House 84

Sec. 103. Repeal bills in the Senate 85

Sec. 104. The repeal act and the thirteenth amendment 86

Sec. 105. Educating effect of the controversy 87

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX A. Colonial laws relative to fugitives 89

APPENDIX B. National acts and propositions relative to fugitive slaves (1778-1854) 104

APPENDIX C. National acts and propositions relating to fugitive slaves (1860-1864) 117

APPENDIX D. List of important fugitive slave cases 124

APPENDIX E. Bibliography of fugitive slave cases and fugitive slave legislation 129

INDEX. 139