Law and Civil DisorderI. IntroductionII. A Law Divided

A. Legal CultureB. Compromises

III. DisorderA. Radicals

1. Secessionists 2. Abolitionists

B. Early Clashes– LovejoyC. Civil Disobedience– ThoreauD. Resisting Slavery– Fugitive slavesE. Self-Defense– Bloody KansasF. Insurrection– Harpers Ferry, Fort

Sumter

Legal Culture

• North– Democra

cy– Rule of

law

• South– Deferenc

e– Force

Compromises

• Henry Clay

Secessionists

• John C. Calhoun

• Lawrence Keitt

Abolitionists

• Garrison• Mott• Douglas

s

Early Clashes

• Elijah Lovejoy

Civil Disobedience

• Henry David Thoreau

• Mexican War, 1846

Fugitive slaves

• Christiana riot

• Jerry Rescue

Edward Gorsuch

Three Christiana defendants

Self-Defense • Bleeding Kansas,

1855-6– “Border ruffians”– Sacking of Lawrence– Pottawatomie massacre

John Brown

Insurrection

• Harpers Ferry

• Fort Sumter