Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...

The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of enslaved people who escaped from one...

of the compromise were: approved California's request to enter the Union as a free state strengthened fugitive slave laws with the Fugitive Slave Act...

people who fled slavery. The term also refers to the federal Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850. Such people are also called freedom seekers to avoid implying...

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article IV...

part of a slave catching group due to the hostility of the locals. Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, slave hunters could easily obtain an "Order of Removal"...

Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a...

risk of injury and conviction in default of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Bass mailed letters to friends of Northup that initiated a series of events...

held that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 precluded a Pennsylvania state law that prohibited Blacks from being taken out of the free state of Pennsylvania...

of 1842 Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Act in Relation to Service (1851) Confiscation Act of 1861 Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves...

the free state of Massachusetts. He started working in Boston. The following year, he was captured under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and tried in court...

but they were apprehended by U.S. Marshals acting under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Garner's defense attorney, John Jolliffe, moved to have her tried...

operation of fugitive slave laws, the so-called "Personal liberty laws", were unconstitutional and should be repealed. That the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 should...

The Fugitive Slave Convention was held in Cazenovia, New York, on August 21 and 22, 1850. It was a fugitive slave meeting, the biggest ever held in the...

Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses...

supporting the Principles of '98 and President Andrew Jackson opposing them. Years later, the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 led anti-slavery activists...

1814 – December 13, 1875) was an African-American fugitive slave from Virginia who escaped in 1850 and reached Boston. He also used the pseudonyms Frederick...

2015). "Fugitive Slave Act of 1850". Virginia Commonwealth University. Retrieved September 14, 2024. Gross, Terry. "How The Fugitive Slave Act Paved The...

the man who held Nat and his family as slaves, called the infant Nat in his records. Even when grown, the slave was known simply as Nat; but after the...

state of Ohio in 1856. Garner was subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and when U.S. marshals broke into the cabin where she and her...

the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was enacted. Michigan's Personal Liberty Act of 1855 was passed in the state legislature to prevent the capture of formerly...

Slaves, the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857, et al.) As such, slavery flourished...

Slave Act may refer to: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, a law passed by the United States Congress Slave Trade Act of 1794, a law passed by the United States...

Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 gave effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause. Salmon P. Chase considered the Fugitive Slave Acts unconstitutional...

Massachusetts, in 1851. He was arrested the same year under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, had a court hearing, and was forced to return to enslavement...

lectures, and help escaped slaves. Shortly after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed by Congress, "one or two slave catchers" were seen in Lowell;...

on the Fugitive Slave and Kansas–Nebraska Acts: Original Letter[permanent dead link] Shapell Manuscript Foundation The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular...

the United States Senate in 1851. An opponent of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Kansas–Nebraska Act, Wade joined the nascent Republican Party as...

secrecy, and later said she "never lost a passenger". After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide escapees farther north into British...

later the Committee of Vigilance, to aid refugee slaves. The Committee of Vigilance supported resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which had increased...