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December, 2006
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The Black Laws
Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio

By Stephen Middleton
(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 363. Notes, selected bibliography, index. $26.95.)

Stephen Middleton's The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio impressively surveys all legal matters affecting African Americans in Ohio from the territorial stage through the 1880s, although most of the emphasis is on the period before the Civil War. Middleton goes well beyond the title's "Black Laws"—those laws that circumscribed African Americans' legal rights—to place clear focus as well on the issue of slavery in Ohio and most notably the legal process governing fugitive slaves in the state. . . .
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