An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity

Reprint of the first and only edition. Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xii, 378 pp. Finkelman describes the judicial turmoil that ensued when slaves were taken into free states, and the resultant issues of the conflict of laws, comity and cooperation between the states, their Constitutional obligations, and the threat of the nationalization of slavery.