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- Title
"The Exploded Humbug": Antebellum Michigan, Personal Liberty Laws, and States' Rights.
- Authors
Thick, Matthew R.
- Abstract
The article explores personal liberty laws in Michigan during the antebellum period from 1783 to 1865. Personal liberty bills were reportedly enacted to protect free African Americans from being kidnapped by slave catchers who might sell them to slavery. The efforts of Democrats and Southerners to oppose the bills are examined as Michigan's advocacy of states' rights and the flaws in states' rights arguments.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PERSONAL liberty laws; LEGAL status of enslaved persons in free states; ANTEBELLUM Period (U.S.); AFRICAN American history; AFRICAN American civil rights; CIVIL rights; STATES' rights (American politics)
- Publication
Michigan Historical Review, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
0890-1686
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5342/michhistrevi.42.2.0053