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Compromise of 1850

Books on: fugitive slave laws

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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

...Williams Fugitive slave in the Gold Rush...James, b. 1825. 2. Fugitive slaves-United States-Biography...Who will make laws?, 47 Not to...that I was a fugitive slave. I also said to...Knowing that the Fugitive Slave Law was still in...
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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

...officers. In the opinion of the laws assailants, fugitive slave commissioners did not in...reconsidering the validity of the fugitive slave laws. He maintained that the development...of reason, these acts the fugitive slave laws must be declared constitutional...
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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

...Southern colonies an elaborate network of laws was established for the prevention, apprehension...slowly and covered many areas concerning fugitives. It was not wholly effective, however...deep insight to slaves. The runaway slave advertisements contained valuable data...
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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

...slaves and that no slave was free unless...restore, the original fugitives--then whether I...something of the laws that govern the...legalised. The native laws on it are wonderful...the abolition of slave trading recaptured fugitives could no longer...

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Journal Articles on: fugitive slave laws

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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

...effect, since fugitive slave writing uses...elude the laws of presence...produces the slave masters ownership...contracts and laws of representation...manipulated by the fugitives multiple...manipulations of slave narrative...evidence the fugitives problematic...relationship to the laws of racified...
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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

...defying the fugitive slave statute. As...the minds and laws of most Northerners...personal liberty laws" to assist...prosecuted under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850...resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850...constitution, "black laws," and lack...
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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

...trudging through the wilderness and fear of slave-catchers have, in narrative form, demonstrated...networks all over the continent (including fugitives settling in Mexico). Furthermore, such...confesses, "Excepting for the oppressive laws, I would rather have remained in Indiana...
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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

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...abolitionists struggle against fugitive slave laws deepened their commitment to...II. THE ABOLITIONISTS, THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAWS, AND THE JURY To understand...abolitionist experience with the fugitive slave laws reinforced the colonial understanding...
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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

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...Mississippi River in the service of his owners, fugitive travel on foot, and autonomous travel...in which an unlicensed, unpredictable slave mobility actually constitutes material...transgression of and emancipation from the laws of bondage. (2) In Browns Narrative, a...

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Magazine Articles on: fugitive slave laws

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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

...President to ignore the Constitution, even to set aside laws passed by Congress. The time is right, then, for a national...purpose was fulfilled. For instance, after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, knowing that the national government could not be...
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Child Labor in Pakistan: Pakistan Has Recently Passed Laws Greatly Limiting Child Labor and Indentured Servitude -- but Those Laws Are Universally Ignored

Magazine article by Jonatha Silvers; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, February 1996

Subjects:

Child labor--Pakistan

Collections: Entire Library

...Family businesses are exempt from the labor laws. This enterprise is not illegal." The...parents. Instead the sergeant ordered the "fugitive" returned in shackles to the landowner...world acclaimed a twelve-year-old former slave named Iqbal Masih for his crusade against...
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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

...Underground Railroad proves that brutal systems and brutal laws can be overturned from within." But does it? The Underground...affirmation of the desire for freedom. For the abolitionists and fugitives of the Underground Railroad, according to the movement narrative...
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Jaffa V. Bork: An Exchange

Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 46, March 21, 1994

Subjects:

Bork, Robert H.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Constitutional interpretation, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Jaffa, Harry V.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Liberalism--Social aspects, Slaves--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Supreme Court--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Constitution did nothing to guarantee slave property. But consider the words of Article...state, under the laws thereof, escaping into...elsewhere, the Constitution does not say that fugitives are to be returned by the states. A good...
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Of Men, Hogs, and Law: If Natural Law Does Not Permit Us to Distinguish between Men and Hogs, What Does?

Magazine article by Harry V. Jaffa, Ernest Van Den Haag; National Review, Vol. 44, February 3, 1992

Subjects:

Ethics--Laws, regulations and rules, Natural law--Ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...without any rational will of its own. By the laws of reason and of nature, a person cannot...person. In 1854, by the positive law of the slave states, and of the United States (because of the fugitive-slave provision of the Constitution), a slave...

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Newspaper Articles on: fugitive slave laws

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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

...law brought numerous fugitives to the nations capital...their agricultural and slave interests. Northerners...would be governed by the laws of Maryland and Virginia...out to $300 per former slave, and nearly $1 million...new law also protected fugitive slaves in Washington...
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Stifling Protest

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 23, 2004

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

...course of history. Public protests against this nations fugitive slave laws, which required the return of escaped slaves to their...critical role in forcing an end to racial segregation laws in the South. More recently, protests helped end a disastrous...
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Did the Underground Railroad Stop Here? Folklore Suggests So, but Historians Struggle to Prove It

Newspaper article by Tara Malone; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 7, 2006

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

...the Middle Passage from Africa, fugitive slave laws, the Emancipation Proclamation...Chicago, advertised his help to fugitive slaves in newspapers sympathetic...the Mother Rudd House in Gurnee. Fugitive slaves reportedly rested in the...
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How We Will Feel on Nov. 5 If Obama Wins

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 27, 2008

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

...its containment in the Southern states. He supported fugitive-slave laws that returned escaped slaves to their masters, though...blacks continued to suffer the humiliation of Jim Crow laws in the South, the violence and lynchings of the KKK...
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Restrictions on Licenses, Asylum Rules Approved

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 11, 2005

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

...bonds and bondsmen reminded them of the language in the fugitive slave laws, which allowed agents to recover slaves who had escaped...change that. "This bill brings back sanity to the asylum laws by overturning rogue precedents from the 9th Circuit...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: fugitive slave laws

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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

FUGITIVE SLAVE LAWS in U.S. history...and others passed laws forbidding state...capture alleged fugitive slaves or to lodge...rigorous fugitive slave law was passed as...in nullifying the fugitive slave laws or rendering "useless...
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Compromise of 1850

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...of the slave trade and the fugitive slave laws had long been vexing. There...territories, of the execution of fugitive slave laws, and of protection against the...of Columbia; a more stringent fugitive slave law; and the settlement of Texas...
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Wade, Benjamin Franklin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...before becoming a Whig senator. He was reelected as a Republican. An uncompromising abolitionist, he denounced the fugitive slave laws, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and other proslavery measures. During the Civil War, Wade and his radical Republican...
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Sumner, Charles

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...combination of Free-Soilers and Democrats sent him to the Senate. An aggressive abolitionist, Sumner attacked the fugitive slave laws, denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and on May 19 20, 1856, delivered his notable antislavery speech called...
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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...acknowledged in the laws of Massachusetts...America. The slave trade moved...troubles over fugitive slaves, and...Cuba, the fugitive slave laws , the operations...directed against slave trading. Great...antislave-trade laws in 1807 and...

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