Article: The Slave Power: the Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860.

Article: The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern ...
The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... history. The idea of a Slave Power rested on the constitutional ... fugitive slaves. When the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 denied ... thereby embraced the Fugitive Slave Law) in preparation ... that the idea of a Slave Power had deep roots in American ...

Article: Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850)
Major Acts of Congress;      700+ words ...Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850) Arthur G. LeFrancois B y the middle ... matter was a gray area decades before the Civil War. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1793 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 (1 Stat. 302) was an effort to provide a ...

Article: Fugitive Slave Acts
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS. In 1793, Congress passed an act to implement the provision ... labour." The 1793 law allowed a master to bring an alleged fugitive slave before any state or federal judge or magistrate for a summary ...

Article: Buffalo's Antebellum African American Community and The ...
Afro - Americans in New York Life and History;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... President Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Law, the most controversial element ... 2) The law, which shored up the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, greatly expanded federal ... benefit of the slaveholder.(3) The Fugitive Slave Law threatened both free and fugitive ...

Article: "The Jordan is a hard road to travel": Hoosier responses to ...
International Social Science Review;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the Alien and Sedition Acts," the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. (1) Part of the Compromise ... defiance--and support--of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is well known. In Boston ... Compromise of 1850, reported that the fugitive slave law was being enforced in Indiana ...

Article: FOOTPRINTS OF THE FUGITIVE: SLAVE NARRATIVE ...
Biography;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The fugitive slave narratives that were published between ... texts. Historians have found that fugitive slave narratives are essential for understanding ... language and readings of selected fugitive slave narratives to examine how autobiography ...

Article: Burns Fugitive Slave Case
Dictionary of American History;      453 words ...BURNS FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE BURNS FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE. The Burns Fugitive Slave Case of 1854 was one of three famous fugitive slave cases arising in Boston after the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. In 1854 Anthony Burns successfully ...