Item 2552The Fugitive Slave Bill; Its History and Unconstitutionality; With an Account of the Seizure and Enslavement of James Hamlet, and His Subsequent Restoration to Liberty.
New York: William Haned, 1850. (1-3), 4-36p. Modern brown cloth. Printed paper front label. Third edition of the 1850 law and the same year's rare initial editions, featuring the "only printed record of Hamlet's case", documenting his arrest and trial, along with text of the bill, details pf congressional votes.....