Until justice be done: America's first civil rights movement, from the revolution to reconstruction

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1. "On the grounds of expediency and good policy": free-state antiblack laws in the early republic

2. "A free man of colour, and a citizen of this state": the privileges and immunities of citizenship in the 1820s

3. "The sacred doctrine of equal rights": Ohio abolitionists in the 1830s

4. "The rights of the citizens of Massachusetts"" African American sailors in southern ports in the 1830s

5. "Self-preservation is the first law of nature": state-to-state conflict and the limits of Congress in the 1840s

6. "That all men are created free and equal": the Liberty Party and repeal of the Ohio Black laws in the 1840s

7. "Injustice and oppression incarnate": Illinois and a nation divided in the 1850s

8. "Establishing one law for the white and colored people alike": Republicans in power during the Civil War, 1861-1865

9. "To restrain the power of the states": the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Note on historiography

Notes

Index.