The ordeal of Edward Greeley Loring: Fugitive slavery, judicial reform, and the politics of law in 1850s Massachusetts
In 1854, acting as a federal commissioner under the Fugitive Slave Law, Suffolk County probate judge Edward Greeley Loring returned the alleged runaway Anthony Burns to slavery. In protest, antislavery activists petitioned legislators to exercise a little-used power to demand that the next governor...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1997
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9721454 |