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18. Robert G. Gunderson, The Log-Cabin Campaign (Lexington, Ky., 1957), 109; George W. Julian, Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872 (Chicago, 1884), 11–13; Boritt, Lincoln and Economics, 63–72; Richard L. Miller, Lincoln and His World: Prairie Politician, 1834–1842 (Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2008), 342.
19. CW, 1: 307–11, 329, 334, 381–82; 3: 487.
20. Thomas Corwin to John McLean, September 8, 1845, John McLean Papers, LC; Theodore C. Pease, ed., Illinois Election Returns, 1818–1848 (Springfield, Ill., 1923), 117, 149; Vernon L. Volpe, Forlorn Hope of Freedom: The Liberty Party in the Old Northwest, 1838–1848 (Kent, Ohio, 1990), 64–69; Reinhard O. Johnson, The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States (Baton Rouge, 2009), 197–201.
21. Pease, Illinois Election Returns, 149; CW, 1: 347–48.
22. Mark E. Brandon, Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure (Princeton, 1998), 52–57; Lysander Spooner, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (Boston, 1845), 36.
23. Cincinnati Gazette, March 26, 1860; George W. Julian, The Life of Joshua R. Giddings (Chicago, 1892), 118–19, 134, 417–23; The Works of Charles Sumner (15 vols.; Boston, 1870–83), 2: 288; CP, 2: 79–80, 87–88; Foner, Free Soil, 73–87.
24. T. K. Hunter, “Transatlantic Negotiations: Lord Mansfield, Liberty and Somerset,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (Symposium 2007), 711–27; Mark S. Weiner, Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (New York, 2004), 84–86; Douglas R. Egerton, Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (New York, 2009), 52–55.
25. John Niven, Salmon P. Chase: A Biography (New York, 1995), 51–54; CP, 1: xxi–xxiii; Law Reporter (Boston), 9 (April 1847), 553.
26. Leonard W. Levy, The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw (Cambridge, Mass., 1957), 58–71; Paul Finkelman, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity (Chapel Hill, 1981), 43–127.
27. Newton N. Newbern, “Judicial Decision Making and the End of Slavery in Illinois,” JISHS, 98 (Spring–Summer 2005), 7–11; Finkelman, Imperfect Union, 97–99; Horace White, The Life of Lyman Trumbull (Boston, 1913), 28–29.
28. N. Dwight Harris, The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois (Chicago, 1904), 122–23; BD, 1: xvi; Chicago Daily Tribune, August 5, 1857; Martha L. Brenner and Cullom Davis, eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (3 CDs; Urbana, Ill., 2000): McElroy v. Clements (1857), Dickinson v. Canton (1860); Mark M. Krug, Lyman Trumbull, Conservative Radical (New York, 1965), 57–68.
29. CW, 3: 518; Brian Dirck, Lincoln the Lawyer (Urbana, Ill., 2007), 56–61, 106; Brenner and Davis, Law Practice. Lincoln’s cases involving blacks included Shelby v. Shelby (1841), Unknown v. Smith (1845), Flourville v. Stockdale et al. (1849), Flourville v. Allen et al. (1853), and People v. Hill (1854).
30. Brenner and Davis, Law Practice: Edwards et ux. v. Edwards et ux. (1844), Dungey v. Spencer (1855); Stacey P. McDermott, “‘Black Bill’ and the Privileges of Whiteness in Antebellum Illinois,” JIH, 12 (Spring 2009), 2–26.
31. Brenner and Davis, Law Practice: People v. Pond (1845), People v. Kern (1847), People v. Scott (1847).
32. Carl Adams, “Lincoln’s First Freed Slave: A Review of Bailey v. Cromwell, 1841,” JISHS, 102 (Spring 2009), 235–59; Brenner and Davis, Law Practice: Bailey v. Cromwell and McNaughton (1841). By the time Lincoln argued the case, his partnership with John Todd Stuart had been dissolved and Lincoln was junior partner to Stephen T. Logan. Most accounts of the case refer to the woman simply as “Nance,” but Adams identifies her full name.
33. Brenner and Davis, Law Practice: In Re Bryant, et al. (1847), Matson for Use of Coles County Illinois v. Rutherford (1847). Accounts of the case include Jesse W. Weik, “Lincoln and the Matson Negroes,” Arena, 17 (April 1897), 752–58; Anton-Hermann Chroust, “Abraham