… support or resist enforcement of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the ways slaves by escaping influenced the politics … of America (New York: Free Press, 2006), Carton is in the early stages of a new project that explores the common roots … “Our Country is the World: Transatlantic Abolitionism and Cosmopolitan Nationalism, 1830-1870.” Kirke Mechem is a …