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_PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE COLLEGIATE INSTRUCTION

OF WOMEN_

Fay House Monographs

No. 3




FUGITIVE SLAVES

(1619-1865)

BY

MARION GLEASON McDOUGALL




PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, PH.D.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BOSTON, U.S.A.

PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY

1891




_Copyright, 1891,_

BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE COLLEGIATE INSTRUCTION OF WOMEN.

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.




EDITOR'S PREFACE.


Every careful student of history is aware that it is no longer possible
to write the general history of any important country from the original
sources; on any period, the materials which accumulate in a year are more
than can be assimilated by one mind in three years. The general historian
must use the results of others' work. It is therefore essential that the
great phases of political and constitutional development be treated in
monographs, each devoted to a single, limited subject and each prepared
on a careful and scientific method.

This first number of the historical series of the Fay House Monographs
aims to discuss the single topic of Fugitive Slaves. Mrs. McDougall has
drawn together and compared many cases found in obscure sources, and has
perhaps been able to correct some commonly received impressions on this
neglected subject.

Even in its limited range this does not pretend to be a complete work in
the sense that all the available cases are discussed or recorded. The
effort has been made to use the cases as