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The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States.

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Fugitive slave, any individual who escaped from slavery in the period before and including the American Civil War. In general they fled to Canada or to free states in the North, though Florida (for a time under Spanish control) was also a place of refuge.

(See Black Seminoles.) From the very. An excerpt from The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, an antislavery Fugitive slave laws book listing cases of individuals targeted by the Fugitive Slave Law. “Leap of the Fugitive Slave,” an drawing of a woman leaping to her death rather than be returned to her master.

The Fugitive Slave Law of S. Africanus. The Fugitive Slave Law. Hartford, Connecticut, Rare Book and Special Collections Division. () This controversial law allowed slave-hunters to seize alleged fugitive slaves without due process of law and prohibited anyone from aiding escaped fugitives or obstructing their recovery.

The Fugitive Slave Act of was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the US Constitution (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3), which was later superseded by the Thirteenth Fugitive slave laws book. The former guaranteed a right for a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave.

The Act, "An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service Enacted by: the 2nd United States Congress. “The War Before the War is a beautifully researched work of scholarship and one of the best examinations of the bleak, complex, macabre world of American slavery that I’ve read.

Everything about the Peculiar Institution is here in vivid detail, but especially the crisis caused by a Fugitive Slave Act that tore this nation asunder.

The Fugitive Slave Acts were two federal laws that concerned runaway slaves in the United States. The two acts were passed in and in They required federal involvement in catching runaway slaves in Northern States.

The laws were designed to protect Southern slave owners. They required those states and jurisdictions to help in the capture and delivery of fugitive slaves.

Cover title. The case of David Powell and family, slaves of John Norris of Boone Co., Ky., who had escaped across the Ohio River in and were apprehended by Norris and friends in at Cassopolis, Mich.

On the return journey, the Powells were released in South Bend on writ of habeas corpus, when Norris commenced suit for damages against Leander B. Newton and 8 others. Fugitive Slave Acts, in U.S. history, statutes passed by Congress in and (repealed in ) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into federal territory.

Learn more about the Fugitive Slave Acts in this article. The Fugitive Slave Act, which became law as part of the Compromise ofwas one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in American was not the first law to deal with fugitive slaves, but it was the most extreme, and its passage generated intense feelings on.

How The Fugitive Slave Act Ignited A 'Struggle For America's Soul' Author Andrew Delbanco says the law paved the way for the Civil War by endangering the lives of both escaped slaves and free.

Historian James Oakes talked about runaway slaves and the consequences of fugitive slave laws. Professor Oakes argued that tensions between slave and free states over fugitive slaves was one of. The War Before the War focuses on the effect the Fugitive Slave Clause in the US Constitution had on American politics, economics, and culture from the Revolutionary War to the end of the Civil War.

This book was an eye opening experience since it illuminated how /5(96). Background. Byseveral hundred slaves a year were successfully escaping to the North, making slavery an unstable institution in the border states.

The earlier Fugitive Slave Act of was a Federal law which was written with the intent to enforce Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of runaway slaves. These so-called “fugitive slave laws” were brazen attempts to return escaped slaves in other Southern states to their masters.

Ohio State University history professor Stacey Smith wrote. In Januarywrites Delbanco early on in this book, a Virginia senator named James Mason introduced what would become the Fugitive Slave Act, justifying the law constitutionally.

'From the point of view of its proponents,' writes the author, 'it was a new attempt to solve an old problem: slavery is a condition from which the enslaved will.

Text of the law.; Includes "Synopsis of the law," critical of the legislation, signed by S.M. Africanus, Hartford, Ct., and poem in three parts.; Fugitive slaves--United States.; Slavery--United States.; Africanus, S. M.; Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.

Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio On a Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave, by Charles G. Davis (page images at MOA) Filed under: Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc.

-- Massachusetts. Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (Boston: Fetridge and Co., ) (page images at MOA). History professor Elizabeth Varon taught a lecture course in the fall of on the “Rise and Fall of the Slave South.” In this day’s lecture, she focused on the Fugitive Slave Law and the.Fugitive Slave Laws, Between andPennsylvania waged a back-and-forth battle against the federal government with a series of laws intended to blunt the effect of the federal Fugitive Slave Act of Ultimately, inPennsylvania lost.

Law Book No. XVIII, pg. 24].Finally. If these fugitive slave laws are unconstitutional, the delivery of persons into slavery under color of them, is a crime; and the state magistrates, on application to them, are bound to place the officers of the United States under bonds to keep the peace in this particular.