An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Hardcover. xii, 378 p.; 24 cm. Maroon cloth with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the publisher's series Studies in Legal History. Gift inscription on half title from the author to Ken Kusmer, professor of history at Temple University. The author studied more than 225 state and federal legal cases about the movement between slave states and free states of enslaved and formly enslaved people prior to the American Civil War. In doing so he demonstrates the significance of the issue of slave transit in the years leading up to the war. Book is in Very Good Condition: occasional margin marks and underlining by former owner, Ken Kusmer; upper page eges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: spine and upper edge are sunned; edges rubbed; several closed tears of 1 cm. and less from the upper edge. Very Good / good +. Item #011029
ISBN: 0807814385
Price: $45.00