Atrocious Judges. Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression . . . With an Appendix, Containing the Case of Passmore Williamson. (New York & Auburn, 1856.)

Abolitionist author Richard Hildreth culled these examples of judicial tyranny from the writings of British legal historian John Campbell. Hildreth added his own account of Judge Kane & Passmore Williamson to this edition

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