The author won the 1997 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association, and the 1996 Book Award, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Thomas D. Morris, professor of history at Portland State University, is author of Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1861.
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