SMITH GERRIT Abstract of the Argument on the Fugitive Slave

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SMITH, GERRIT. Abstract of the Argument on the Fugitive Slave Law . . . on the Trial of Henry W. Allen, Deputy Marshall, For Kidnapping. 32 pages. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers with the title on the upper cover; authorial presentation on the front cover. Syracuse: At the Daily Journal Office, 1852

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presentation copy from gerrit smith. "Mr. Goodelle's presented by Gerrit Smith, 10 Sept., 1852." Gerrit Smith (1797-1874) a wealthy upstate New York philanthropist and ardent abolitionist makes a powerful argument against a deputy marshal who had kidnapped a slave, suggesting that the law itself was not constitutional. The Fugitive Slave Law was the most hated piece of pro-slavery legislation in the nation's history. It created an insidious industry in slave-catching, as it was called. Many free blacks were scooped up by teams of men who then delivered them back into slavery.