Chapter I: Legislation and Cases Before the Constitution

Sec. 1. Elements of colonial slavery 1

Sec. 2. Regulations as to fugitives (1640-1700) 2

Sec. 3. Treatment of fugitives 3

Sec. 4. Regulations in New England colonies 4

Sec. 5. Escapes in New England: Attucks case 5

Sec. 6. Dutch regulations in New Netherlands 6

Sec. 7. Escapes from New Amsterdam 6

Sec. 8. Intercolonial regulations 7

Sec. 9. Intercolonial cases 8

Sec. 10. International relations 9

Sec. 11. International cases 10

Sec. 12. Relations with the mother country 11

Sec. 13. Regulation under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1788) 12

Sec. 14. Ordinance for the Northwest Territory (1787) 13

Sec. 15. The Fugitive question in the Constitutional Conventions 14