1851 STATUTES VERMONT. Early Fugitive Slave & Freedmen Statutes with Legal Documents of Early Legislator.

A very nicely preserved example of the Statutes of the State of Vermont, issued during the height of the fugitive slave crisis, which is addressed in detail in newly adopted legislation, as shown. The copy of Charles F. Barrett, period Vermont local official. Includes perhaps 20pp of local legal documents related to Barrett as well.  Williams, Charles L. The Compiled Statutes of the State of Vermont, being Such of the Revised Statutes, and of the Public Acts and Laws Passed Since, as are Now in Force: To which are Prefixed The Constitutions of the United States and the State of Vermont, Published in Pursuance of an Act of the Legislature. Montpellier. E. P. Walton & Son. 1851. 815pp. Good + in original full calf, some rubbing, a bit dry. Blank ffep nearly detached. All else generally solid and clean with some light toning and very minor foxing.