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Research Topics on: fugitive slave act

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Books on: fugitive slave act

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Journal Articles on: fugitive slave act

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Magazine Articles on: fugitive slave act

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Newspaper Articles on: fugitive slave act

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    Richmond Spinster a Blue Angel; Prison Visits Lead to Espionage, Harboring Union Fugitives
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 6, 2003
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...espionage, harboring Union fugitives. Byline: John M...their household with slave labor. Until the secession...in the notion that "slave power was losing its...visits, the harboring of fugitives was a criminal offense...Elizabeth had her slaves remove the body and...caper was hardly the act of a disciplined spy...politically significant acts of disloyalty." The...
     
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    Running to Help Child Sex Slaves
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 16, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Slavery
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Running to Help Child Sex Slaves. Byline: Kate Tsubata...and 80 percent of slaves are exploited sexually...victims to perform the acts, and it depicts the actual criminal act itself. The profit...trade in underage sex slaves. Unlike drug dealers...attack this modern-day slave trade by creating change...support it. Even when the Fugitive Slave Act was passed...
     
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    City Landmarks to Black History: Trials, Triumphs of Descendants of African Slaves Are Memorialized Here
    Newspaper article by Pat Butters; The Washington Times, February 8, 1996
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...newly freed but bowed slave, whose chains have...the model for the slaves face was none other...captured under the Fugitive Slave Act. Charlotte Scott, a former slave from Virginia, began...reads that former slaves raised $17,000...
     
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    Lincoln Presides over Institution He Abhors; Slave Pens throughout U.S. Capital
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2002
    Subjects: 
    Lincoln, Abraham
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...institution he abhors; Slave pens throughout...Constitution Act authorized Union...soldiers to regard slaves as free men and...brought numerous fugitives to the nations...agricultural and slave interests. Northerners...Kansas-Nebraska Act and the approaching...300 per former slave, and nearly...also protected fugitive slaves in Washington...
     
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    Secession's Apologists Gut Constitution, History
    Newspaper article by Mackubin Thomas Owens; The Washington Times, July 22, 2000
    Subjects: 
    Lincoln, Abraham
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...was a legitimate act and that the North...Given the large slave population of the...forced the return of fugitive slaves without a jury trial...pass the Fugitive Slave Act. In 1854, the...federal guarantee of slave property in all U...to return fugitive slaves; the refusal of...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: fugitive slave act

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    Fugitive Slave Laws
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...history, the federal acts of 1793 and 1850 providing...states of escaped black slaves. Similar laws existing...to Native American slaves. As slavery was abolished...more rigorous fugitive slave law was passed as part...anyone who assisted slaves to escape from bondage...apprehended, an alleged fugitive was taken before a...weighted against the fugitives that many Northerners...fearlessly defied the 1850 act, often mobbing federal...
     
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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...opposed to slavery, and she had seen its effects in Kentucky and had aided a runaway slave. However, it was not until the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) that she was moved to write on the subject. Uncle Toms Cabin, first published...
     
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    Mason, James Murray
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Representatives (1837 39), and in the U.S. Senate (1847 61). A staunch supporter of Southern rights, he drafted the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and advocated secession. Jefferson Davis appointed him Confederate commissioner to England in Aug., 1861...
     
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    Fillmore, Millard
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...to the presidency upon Taylors death, he encouraged and then signed the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Act. He tried to enforce the measures despite the criticism his course evoked from the North. Cheaper postal rates...
     
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    Curtis, George Ticknor
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...attorney, Curtis served in the Massachusetts legislature (1840 43) and as U.S. commissioner at Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. He was one of the defense counsel in the Dred Scott Case . Closely associated with Daniel Webster , he...
     

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