Cover Page -- The Slave Catchers -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I Background and Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law -- Chapter II The Constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 -- Chapter III The Fugitive Slave Law and Public Opinion, 1850-1854 -- Chapter IV The Fugitive Slave Law and Public Opinion, 1854-1860 -- Chapter V Executive Policy and the Fugitive Slave Law -- Chapter VI Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860 -- Chapter VII Non-Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law: Slave Rescues, 1850-1860 -- Chapter VIII The Personal Liberty Laws and Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law -- Chapter IX The Fugitive Slave Law: From Secession to Repeal* -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.