TY - BOOK AU - Middleton,Stephen ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The Black laws: race and the legal process in early Ohio T2 - Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest AV - KFO511.5.A34 M53 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Athens, Ohio PB - Ohio University Press KW - African Americans KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Ohio KW - History KW - Race discrimination KW - Law and legislation KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-355) and index; Ambiguous beginnings, 1787-1801 -- The many meanings of freedom, 1800-1803 -- "A state for white men," 1803-1830 -- The battle over the color line, 1830-1839 -- The struggle to abolish the color line, 1840-1849 -- Enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, 1803-1850 -- The fugitive slave crisis in the 1850s -- The limits of freedom; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3026850 ER -