The 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... 34 KB (3,525 words) - 13:36, 16 April 2024 |
The Fugitive Slave Clause in the United States Constitution, also known as either the Slave Clause or the Fugitives From Labor Clause, is Article IV,... 11 KB (1,409 words) - 19:01, 13 August 2023 |
out for runaway slaves. Slave owners hired people who made a living catching fugitive slaves. Since these slave catchers charged by the day and mile, many... 15 KB (1,790 words) - 21:38, 8 April 2024 |
these states, and some farmers used slave labor. In Illinois, for example, while the trade in slaves was prohibited, it was legal to bring slaves from... 332 KB (35,437 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2024 |
Ellen and William Craft (category Fugitive American slaves) among the most famous fugitive slaves in the United States. Abolitionists featured them in public lectures to gain support in the struggle to end the institution... 29 KB (3,642 words) - 03:55, 2 May 2024 |
The pre-American Civil War practice of kidnapping into slavery in the United States occurred in both free and slave states, and both fugitive slaves and... 29 KB (3,134 words) - 03:05, 17 March 2024 |
England in 1850, as the new Fugitive Slave Law passed in the United States increased enforcement against fugitive slaves even in free states. He did not... 8 KB (974 words) - 22:45, 19 April 2024 |
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property (section Slaves) slaves would be branded if a slave was known to run away. Numerous laws in the U.S., like the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution of 1789, the Fugitive... 19 KB (2,751 words) - 19:13, 26 February 2024 |
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (category Fugitive Slave Clause case law) 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 539 (1842), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 precluded a Pennsylvania... 18 KB (2,252 words) - 03:01, 12 March 2024 |
Importation of Slaves Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Dred Scott v. Sandford Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution... 11 KB (1,385 words) - 12:00, 26 March 2024 |
("There is no extradition from the Don!"), in reference to Don Cossacks. Fugitive Fugitive slaves in the United States History of serfdom Peasant movement... 8 KB (825 words) - 16:42, 17 July 2023 |
recorded as slaves. Slaves in Indian Territory across the United States were used for many purposes, from work in the plantations of the East, to guides... 76 KB (9,013 words) - 21:09, 24 March 2024 |
Henry Box Brown (redirect from The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia) speaker in the northeast United States. As a public figure and fugitive slave, Brown felt extremely endangered by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of... 27 KB (3,225 words) - 00:00, 9 April 2024 |
hands were slaves who labored on plantations. They were commonly used to plant, tend, and harvest cotton, sugar, rice, and tobacco. Field slaves usually... 3 KB (280 words) - 12:24, 10 July 2023 |
The Fugitive Slaves (1862) is a painting by the American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts a family of African Americans fleeing enslavement in the... 8 KB (874 words) - 12:22, 16 November 2023 |