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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

...was not much difference. STORY OF GEORGE LAWS, OF DELAWARE. George represented the ordinary young slave-men of Delaware. He was of unmixed blood...would not be likely to heed complaints from a slave. He, therefore, dragged his chains, and...
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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

...standing adequate enough to own a slave. 8 Ellen Crafts ability to...memories of what she has seen as a slave girl who was taken from her...escape: "She saw that the laws under which we lived did not...it" RTMF 30 . The dual roles slave and master, black woman and...
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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

...Vermonts antikidnapping law, these provisions of the personal liberty laws were not contrary...jurisdictions. But since the Fugitive Slave Laws, supported by the...states and return his slaves where such could...without due process of law, the antikidnapping...intent of the Fugitive Slave Law, and while they...
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United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny

Book by Susan Dudley Gold; Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2006

Subjects:

Amistad (Schooner), Cinque--Trials, Litigation, Etc, Fugitive Slaves--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States, Slave Insurrections--United State, Trials (Mutiny)--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the Antelope, the Spanish slave ship seized by Americans...the Amistad blacks were not slaves when their ship was seized...the case, he said. New York law required that a foreign slave who escaped to that state would...He cited French and English laws with similar requirements...the term merchandise included slaves. The treaties contained no...
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Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy

Book by Howard Jones; Oxford University Press, 1988

Subjects:

Amistad (Schooner), Antislavery Movements--United States, Slave Insurrections--United States, Trials (Mutiny)--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the impor- tation of slaves before 1808 and that three-fifths of the slaves in the United States...1793, Congress passed a fugitive-slave law to help the states enforce...Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Boston: Hilliard, Gray...principle pervades the common law of the non-slaveholding...

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Journal Articles on: fugitive slave laws

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Documenting the American South: Thomas H. Jones and the Fugitive Slave Law

Journal article by Cheryl Mason Bolick; Social Education, Vol. 66, 2002

Subjects:

Fugitive Slave Law, Jones, Thomas H.--Biography, Slavery--History, Southern States--History

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Thomas H. Jones and the Fugitive Slave Law. by Cheryl Mason Bolick...of the hunted American Slave in England: BOSTON...passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, at the last session...country of all fugitive slaves in the Northern States...
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Central and Western New York and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Journal article by Paula J. Priebe; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 16, 1992

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery, Emancipation of slaves, Law, Slavery

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...the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 because...freedom for the slaves, the northern...to get the fugitives who made it...nullifying the laws regarding recapture...difficulties for slave owners. Democratic...Congress that no fugitive would be returned...of fugitive slaves was also seen...only, and not fugitives from labor...escape of a slave to New York State. The fugitive destroyed a...constitutionality of the law therefore seemed...the fugitive laws and article...
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"It Outlaws Me, and I Outlaw It!" Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in Syracuse, New York

Journal article by Angela Murphy; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 28, 2004

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery, African Americans, Black culture, Blacks, Civil law, Civil rights, Culture, Emancipation of slaves, Law, Legislation, Minority & ethnic groups, Politics, Slavery, Traditions

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...agitate against the Fugitive Slave Law. A "County...assistance to fugitive slaves, in particular...provisions for the fugitives comfort, and...personal liberty laws that would legally...resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law.(80) An...
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Buffalo's Antebellum African American Community and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Journal article by Jean Richardson; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 27, 2003

Subjects:

History, Law, Legislation, Politics, Slavery, United States--US

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Professional slave catchers kept...year of the laws passage...the alleged fugitives were remanded...Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the subsequent...passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. The reports...after the laws passage have...number of fugitives the north...impact of the Fugitive Slave Law. In Buffalo...
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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

...outlaw, or fugitive. The representational...30). The slaves patronymic...produces the slave masters ownership...contracts and laws of representation...manipulated by the fugitives multiple names...not obey the law," fugitive slaves "are not...manipulations of slave narrative...evidence the fugitives problematic...relationship to the laws of racified...

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Magazine Articles on: fugitive slave laws

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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

...abode once housed fugitive slaves. The evidence...that thousands of slaves per year had gone...freedom-loving fugitives, affirming humanitys...passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the South...stole thousands of slaves each year." The...meanwhile, embraced fugitives who surfaced increasingly...
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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: History, Entire Library

...the Constitution, even to set aside laws passed by Congress. The time is right...For instance, after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, knowing that the national government...slavery groups organized to nullify the law by acts of civil disobedience. They...plans, and set about rescuing escaped slaves who were in danger of being returned...
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, November 1999

Subjects:

Black studies, Slavery

Collections: Entire Library

...he had never had a slave abscond from his farm...impress upon the entire slave community the futility...disfigurement suffered by slaves at the hands of their...bondage. Despite the Fugitive Slave Acts and other harsh laws, the flow of runaways...
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When the Slave-catcher Came to Town

Magazine article by Daniel J. Sharfstein; Humanities, Vol. 32, September 2011

Subjects:

Skin, Towns

Collections: Entire Library

...though Jenningss slave was not in the area...neighbor John Bacons slave. On a January day...had left his two slaves alone while visiting with his in-laws. The Ohio River was frozen over, and the slaves had simply walked...attorney to arrest the fugitive. Wack mailed it...matter of Jenningss slave Henry. On a tip...
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Policing the Color Line

Magazine article by Christian Parenti; The Nation, Vol. 273, October 1, 2001

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Book)

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...PARENTI SLAVE PATROLS: Law and Violence in Virginia...of slave society and slave labor power, and served...Prior to Sally Haddens Slave Patrols: Law and Violence...straightforward history, Slave Patrols begins with a look at the policing of slaves on Barbados, where the...Native Americans and the fugitive slaves who (at least...

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Newspaper Articles on: fugitive slave laws

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Can States Nullify Federal Law?

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 21, 2011

Subjects:

News agencies--Laws, regulations and rules, The Associated Press--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Supreme Court--Laws, regulations and rules

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

...shall be the supreme law of the land," Gov...would become the law of the state, Pearce...response to federal laws passed amid an undeclared...toward agricultural slave states. President...nullify the federal Fugitive Slave Act that forced...mandating U.S. laws, when vetted by...shall be the supreme law of the land."
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Railroad Remembered; Tales Live on of Aid to Slaves

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 6, 2004

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

...defied federal law to aid the slaves...asked where the fugitive was, residents...escaped Maryland slave Harriet Tubman...depicting smiling fugitives escaping on a...The number of slaves who escaped on...violating federal laws enacted to enforce...State, under the Laws thereof, escaping...Consequence of any Law or Regulation...more powerful fugitive-slave law was passed...
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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...soldiers to regard slaves as free men and...runaways. This law brought numerous fugitives to the nations capital...agricultural and slave interests. Northerners...governed by the laws of Maryland and...Southerners, and when slave owners came to Washington, their slaves were kept chained...
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Ploy Chorus . . . Law Libretto

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 29, 2005

Subjects:

Schiavo, Terri

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

...And when the last law was down, and the...hide, Roper, the laws all being flat...appealed to a "higher law" to justify disobedience...disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 despite...honored the rule of law in the protracted...constitutionality of state laws requiring "clear...
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'I Tell Children I've Broken Law but Did Nothing Morally Wrong ..I'm against All Animal Violence' INVESTIGATION: BRAINWASHING OUR KIDS

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), February 28, 2010

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

...Tell Children Ive Broken Law but Did Nothing Morally...ago: "Ive broken the law but Ive never really done...nationwide manhunt for the fugitive. He was found within...considers our world to be a "slave society" where "human...describes horse racing as "slave racing", and has condemned...

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

FUGITIVE SLAVE LAWS in U...escaped black slaves. Similar laws existing...the 1793 law was loosely...that allowed fugitives a jury trial...others passed laws forbidding...capture alleged fugitive slaves or to lodge...fugitive slave law was passed...assisted slaves to escape...an alleged fugitive was taken...evidence. The law was so weighted...against the fugitives that many...liberty laws contradicting...
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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...hostages became permanent slaves. Slavery in the Ancient...Persia. In ancient Egypt slave labor was used in building...There were domestic slaves, agricultural slaves...treated, and there were laws protecting them against...no rights in courts of law. Slaves could obtain...especially Asian, slaves were in great demand...provinces grew, so did the slave supply. Consequently...
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Compromise of 1850

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...addition, the questions 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...more stringent fugitive slave law; and the settlement of Texas...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...a sometimes criticized national security law originally enacted in 2001 after the Sept...with only minor adjustments most of the law was made permanent in Mar., 2006. President...Republicans disagreed over aspects of the proposed law, and it was not passed before the November...
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Underground Railroad

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...help given to fugitive slaves on their varied...the runaway slave before his...South, and by slaves on plantations...in helping fugitives escape to freedom...the fleeing slaves themselves...infidelity to the fugitive slave laws . The effect...

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