Article: SHADRACH MINKINS: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen, by Gary Collison; Harvard University Press (294 pages, $27.95).(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Article: Buffalo's Antebellum African American Community and The ...
Afro - Americans in New York Life and History;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Law, the most controversial element ... the slaveholder.(3) The Fugitive Slave Law threatened both free and fugitive ... accusation. One would expect the Fugitive Slave Law to impact heavily on Buffalo ...

Article: Documenting the American South: Thomas H. Jones and the ...
Social Education;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... consequence of the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, at the last session of Congress ... textbooks reveals that the Fugitive Slave Law, for example, is explained ... background and purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law, as in the following example ...

Article: "It Outlaws me, and I Outlaw it!" Resistance to the ...
Afro - Americans in New York Life and History;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... promote obedience to the new Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The law had been ... According to the terms of the new fugitive slave law the federal government would ... Standard, reported that "the fugitive slave law is causing some excitement ...

Article: The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave ...
Journal of the Early Republic;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave Law, the Constitution, and the ... the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act. This book chronicles their ... futile effort to defeat the fugitive slave law. An underlying theme of Baker ...

Dictionary definition: Fugitive Slave Law
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      303 words ...Fugitive Slave Law a law enacted by Congress in 1793 to enable the return of runaway ... slaveholders argued that its provisions were too ambiguous. A second Fugitive Slave Law was passed as a measure of the Compromise of 1850 .

Operations of the fugitive--slave law.
NYPL Digital Gallery;  January 1, 1934 ;     263 words ...

Article: Burns Fugitive Slave Case
Dictionary of American History;      453 words ... ... after the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. In 1854 Anthony Burns ... Burns case enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law declined. BIBLIOGRAPHY Campbell ... Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 – 1860. Chapel ...