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Compromise of 1850

Books on: fugitive slave act

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Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush: Life and Adventures of James Williams

Book by James Williams; University of Nebraska Press, 2002

Subjects:

African American Pioneers--California--Biography, California--Gold Discoveries, California--Race Relations, Frontier And Pioneer Life--California, Fugitive Slaves--United States--Biography, Underground Railroad, Williams, James--B. 1825

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Knowing that the Fugitive Slave Law was still in...month if you will act as porter for me...at that time, a slave. I was the first...school, being born a slave, and not having the...which these organs act themselves, but not...
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The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860

Book by Stanley W. Campbell; University of North Carolina Press, 1970

Collections: History, Entire Library

...signed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. 59. This act was composed...Objections to the Act of Congress...Called the Fugitive Slave Law Answered...argument that "the act of Congress...called the fugitive slave law is, in...
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Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation

Book by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.; Praeger, 2000

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Prose Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Prose Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Autobiography, Fugitive Slaves In Literature, Fugitive Slaves--United States--Biography--History And Criticism, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Passing (Identity) In Literature, Self In Literature, Slaves' Writings, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

African American fugitive slave narratives are receiving growing amounts of attention for their literary and historical value. This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. By examining such issues as voice and ...
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African American fugitive slave narratives are receiving growing amounts of attention for their literary and historical value. This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. By examining such issues as voice and identity formation, the volume demonstrates how identity may be seen as a cultural fabrication. Former slave narrators used a series of masking and doubling techniques to address their experiences as African Americans. This book crosses the boundaries between literary criticism and historical study by examining the tensions between generic conventions and the impulses that created and reinforced them.
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Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790 - Vol. 2

Book by Lathan A. Windley; Greenwood Press, 1983

Subjects:

Fugitive Slaves--Southern States--History--18th Century--Sources, Slavery--Southern States--History--18th Century--Sources, Southern States--Social Conditions--18th Century--Sources

Collections: History, Entire Library

...If these runaway slave advertisements tell...characteristics of the fugitives, they also tell us...system." 2 A fugitive slave presented multiple...slaves. The runaway slave advertisements contained...concerning the sex of the fugitive, his age, birthplace...
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The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies, and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

Book by Joseph E. Inikori, Stanley L. Engerman; Duke University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Slave Trade--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...rendering up a fugitive slave to his master...of a criminal act.' " Prevailing...Burdon chose to act in accordance...necessity of returning fugitive slaves to their...the abolition of slave trading recaptured fugitives could no longer...

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Journal Articles on: fugitive slave act

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Footprints of the Fugitive: Slave Narrative Discourse and the Trace of Autobiography

Journal article by Lynn A. Casmier-Paz; Biography, Vol. 24, 2001

Subjects:

Autobiographies--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fugitive slaves--Personal narratives, Slaves--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...slave owners while he is a fugitive in the North, he is called...slaveholders, whenever one buys a slave of another, if the name...pleases" (222). The very act of renaming a slave powerfully...Congress had passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which made it a federal...
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"The Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel": Hoosier Responses to Fugitive Slave Cases, 1850-1860

Journal article by Dean J. Kotlowski; International Social Science Review, Vol. 78, 2003

Collections: Entire Library

...Alien and Sedition Acts," the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. (1) Part of the Compromise...defiance--and support--of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is well known. In Boston...release alleged fugitives. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Sources of Support...
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"As If I Had Entered a Paradise": Fugitive Slave Narratives and Cross-Border Literary History

Journal article by Nancy Kang; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005

Subjects:

African Americans--History, African Americans--Works, Antislavery literature--Analysis, Black Canadians--History, Black Canadians--Works

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...castration with an act of coercive...internal spies, slave breakers...called for fugitives audacity...It is the act of language...apparatus of the slave pass (that...enact the fugitives trek north...outside of the act of language...hoarding the fugitive slave narratives...
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Juries and Race in the Nineteenth Century

Journal article by Jr. James Forman; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, 2004

Subjects:

Abolitionists--Analysis, Abolitionists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Abolitionists--Management, Civil Rights Act of 1871, Discrimination in criminal justice administration--History, Equality before the law--Laws, regulations and rules, Fugitive Slave Act, Jury--History, Jury--Laws, regulations and rules, Race discrimination--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Entire Library

...In 1793, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which empowered a person claiming...court. During debates over the Fugitive Slave Act, Southerners had defeated abolitionist...the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act, striking down a Pennsylvania...
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William Wells Brown's Narrative & Traveling Subjectivity

Journal article by Stephen Lucasi; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American authors--Travel, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Travel, African American writers--Works, Brown, William Wells--Criticism and interpretation, Brown, William Wells--Travel, Brown, William Wells--Works, Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (Biography)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...Narrative--regenerated debates over the territorial expansion of slavery, leading eventually to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, during which Missouri served as a proslavery stronghold in the fight for Kansas. Thinking...

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Magazine Articles on: fugitive slave act

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Impeachment by the People

Magazine article by Howard Zinn; The Progressive, Vol. 71, February 2007

Subjects:

American Revolution, 1775-1783, Civil disobedience--Analysis, Civil disobedience--Forecasts and trends, Fugitive Slave Act, PATRIOT Act of 2001, United States history--Revolution, 1775-1783, United States--Domestic policy, United States--Foreign policy, United States--Military policy

Collections: Entire Library

...For instance, after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, knowing that the national government...could not be counted on to repeal the act, black and white anti-slavery groups...take a stand against the Patriot Act. Impeachment hearings all over the...
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Liverpool World City: On the City's 800th Anniversary in 2007, and the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, John Belchem Examines Liverpool's Cosmopolitan Profile and Cultural Pretensions

Magazine article by John Belchem; History Today, Vol. 57, April 2007

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery--History, Liverpool, England--History, Slave trade--History, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...United States at that time. Fugitive slaves from America such as...other slave town in America. If a...employment required by the new Aliens Act of 1905 prompted a hysterical...any "rings" of coloured "White Slave" traffickers, the Home Office...
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The Ungrounded Railroad

Magazine article by Beverly Gage; The Nation, Vol. 270, March 13, 2000

Subjects:

Fugitive slaves--United States, Underground railroad--History

Collections: Entire Library

...fugitive-slave make-believe, complete with a slave auction in which "traders" abuse the visitor...official "Freedom Trails," repackaging fugitives paths as self-guided auto expeditions...Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act dedicates an annual $500,000 for "an enduring...
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There's a Movement Afoot

Magazine article by Ann E. Eskridge, Sharon Fitzgerald; American Visions, Vol. 14, February 1999

Subjects:

African Americans--History, Fugitive slaves--History, Ohio--History, Slavery--History, Underground railroad--History

Collections: Entire Library

...was John Parker, a fugitive slave who had escaped from...Network to Freedom Act of 1998 (House Resolution...the passage of the act provides national...separated from the slave states Kentucky and...it attractive for fugitive blacks, because many...
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Antiwar Movements, Then and Now

Magazine article by Benjamin Shepard; Monthly Review, Vol. 53, February 2002

Subjects:

Ayers, Bill--Authorship, Fugitive Days: A Memoir (Book), Peace movements--History

Collections: Entire Library

...human world without utopian dreams. Why would anyone go on?" Fugitive Days is a painful story of activists losing themselves in a...in social welfare at Hunter/CUNY. Shepard is editor of From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era...

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Newspaper Articles on: fugitive slave act

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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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the First Constitution Act authorized Union soldiers...law brought numerous fugitives to the nations capital...their agricultural and slave interests. Northerners...out to $300 per former slave, and nearly $1 million...new law also protected fugitive slaves in Washington...
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Rebels Capture Blacks While Invading North

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 28, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...secession, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 legally...the Confiscation Act soon after the...segment of the slave population. It...any house where a fugitive slave was hiding...Round Table. A fugitive slave family is seen...
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Settlement Isn't like What You See in the Movies

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 23, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Students rotate form several locations in the settlement meeting people who have different points of view concerning the Fugitive Slave Act. As Mrs. Louisa Murray, wife of attorney Robert and friend of Stephen Douglas, Coffelt advocates following the...
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Teaching History

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 16, 2008

Subjects:

History--Study and teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Washington was in emancipating our country from British tyranny in 1783, then turned around and signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 that did the exact opposite for the entire black population in the same country. Traditional messages in...
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'Conductors' on This Railroad Earn Hero Status

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 22, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Northerners of weaker conscience. Then, in 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was signed into law. This law abolished habeas corpus...requiring every Northerner to help uphold slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act killed much of the indifference, if not scorn, abolitionists...

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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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Abolitionists fearlessly defied the 1850 act, often mobbing federal officials in attempts to rescue fugitives. In Boston, for instance, the "good citizens...but failed to free the escaped Virginia slave Anthony Burns; moreover, it was thought...
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Curtis, George Ticknor

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...patent 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...
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Mason, James Murray

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...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 serially (1851 52) in an abolitionist...
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Fillmore, Millard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Succeeding 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 were...

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