Publications of the Osgoode Society The odyssey of John Anderson
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
080205840X
ISBN 13
9780802058409
DDC
345.71
Category
Osgoode Society
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Publication Year
1989
Pages
xiii, 151 pages
Subject
Canadian Biography
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Abstract
Patrick Brode explores the legal and political implications of the Anderson case, and reveals something of the man at the center of it all. john Anderson was an ordinary man caught in extraordinary circumstances. for a few months he was a public figure, a personification of the struggle against slavery. not long after the hearing he dropped from public view, adding a final, unsolved mystery to this intriguing case. - From verso.
Description
Content:
In Little Dixie -- A Sudden Impulse -- Magistrate Mathews's Prisoner -- A Cause Célèbre -- Argument and Pleading -- 'The Wrangling Courts and Stubborn Law' -- England Intervenes -- A Case of Quibbles -- 'To Make a Demigod of Him' -- Back to Africa.
In Little Dixie -- A Sudden Impulse -- Magistrate Mathews's Prisoner -- A Cause Célèbre -- Argument and Pleading -- 'The Wrangling Courts and Stubborn Law' -- England Intervenes -- A Case of Quibbles -- 'To Make a Demigod of Him' -- Back to Africa.
Biblio Notes
Includes biographical references and index.
Number of Copies
1
