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Part I. The Jurisprudence of the Marshall Court
Chapter 1: Prelude to Conflict: The Marshall Court and The Antelope
Chapter 2: The Marshall Court and Federalism
Part II. The Age of Accommodation
Chapter 3: Sectionalism and the Rise of the Second Party System
Chapter 4: The Supreme Court in the Early 1840s
Chapter 5: United States v. The Amistad
Chapter 6: Slavery, the Commerce Power, and Groves v. Slaughter
Chapter 7: The Problem of Fugitive Slaves
Chapter 8: Assessment
Part III. The Conflict Escalates, 1842-1853
Chapter 9: Slavery and Territorial Expansion
Chapter 10: The Controversy over Fugitive Slaves, 1842-53
Chapter 11: The Supreme Court in 1846
Chapter 12: Revisiting the Commerce Power
Chapter 13: The Ongoing Struggle over Fugitive Slaves
Chapter 14: Prelude to Dred Scott: Strader v. Graham and the Doctrine of Reattachment
Chapter 15: Assessment
Part IV. The Sectionalization of American Politics, 1853-1859
Chapter 16: The Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Anthony Burns Affair, and the Demise of the Second Party System
Chapter 17: The Supreme Court in the Mid 1850s
Chapter 18: Northern Nullification: Ableman v. Booth, Part One
Chapter 19: Dred Scott, Part One: The Road to the Supreme Court
Chapter 20: The Court on the Brink
Chapter 21: Sectionalism on the March
Chapter 22: Dred Scott, Part Two: Reargument and Reconsideration
Chapter 23: Dred Scott, Part Three: The Opinions of the Justices
Chapter 24: Dred Scott, Part Four: The Reaction to the Court’s Decision
Chapter 25: Ableman v. Booth, Part Two: The Court Decides
Part V. The Isolated Court
Chapter 26: The Election of 1860
Chapter 27: Kentucky v. Dennison and the Problem of Extradition
Conclusion: The Lessons of the Slavery Cases
Notes
Bibliography
Index