The author won the 1997 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association, and the 1996 Book Award, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Thomas D. Morris, professor of history at Portland State University, is author of Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1861.
Brimming with knowledge and insight about a horrific aspect of our
legal culture that continues to affect us."Washington Post Book
World"
One of the most impressive and thoughtful volumes on slavery in the
last twenty years. "History: Reviews of New Books"
One of the most significant works on Southern slave law."Law and
Politics Book Review"
The fullest and most probing explication to date of the policies
and practices of the 'laws' of slavery."Historian"
This fine book is now the standard work concerning the legal
history of slavery in the United States."Journal of Southern
History"
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