Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is past President of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Associated Editor and Acting Editor of the Journal of American History, and editor of the Indiana Magazine of History. He is the author of several books, including Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 (2002), Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2000), and Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery (2013).
Part I. The Slave Power Asserts Its Rights: 1. The fugitive slave law
2. The law does its work
3. Compromise and colonize
Part II. Freedom's Fires Burn: 4. Missouri and Illinois
5. Western Kentucky and Indiana
6. Eastern Kentucky and Ohio
7. Southeast Pennsylvania
8. Eastern shore of Maryland and Philadelphia
9. New York
10. Massachusetts
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
