Article: Fugitive Slave Act
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      361 words ...Fugitive Slave Act (1850).Drafted by Senator James Y...contentious debate in the Senate, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was signed into law by President...affirmed the law's constitutionality. The Fugitive Slave Act authorized newly appointed fugitive...

Article: "The Jordan is a hard road to travel": Hoosier responses to fugitive slave cases, 1850-1860.
International Social Science Review;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......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...release alleged fugitives. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Sources of Support...

Article: Prigg v. Pennsylvania
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States;      700+ words ......of removal under the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and Pennsylvania's...with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act were unconstitutional. Story...did not have to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. In his concurrence (which...

Article: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History;      700+ words ...FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850 The roots of the American...Congress subsequently enacted the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 to specify procedures to aid...slaves, these measures, including the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, were routinely scorned in...

Article: Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850)
Major Acts of Congress;      700+ words ......gray area decades before the Civil War. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1793 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793...their right to reclaim fugitive slaves. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (9 Stat. 462) was an ...

Article: Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Dictionary of American History;      434 words ......to seize any fugitive slave anywhere and...the federal Fugitive Slave Act; 4) state officials...1793; and 5) no fugitive slave was entitled...recapture his slave" anywhere in...and draconian Fugitive Slave Law of 1850...

Article: Fugitive Slave Acts
A Dictionary of World History;      99 words ...Fugitive Slave Acts US legislation providing for the return of escaped...free states” became lax in enforcing the first Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. The second Act, part of the COMPROMISE OF 1850...thwart the Act drove the South further towards rebellion. Fugitive slave ...

Article: Jones v. Van Zandt
Dictionary of American History;      153 words ......constitutionality of the 1793 federal Fugitive Slave Act and attack slavery itself as contrary...arguments, insisting that the fugitive slave clause of Article IV was one of...59. William M. Wiecek See also Fugitive Slave Acts .

Article: The rescue of Joshua Glover; a fugitive slave, the Constitution, and the coming of the Civil War.(Brief article)(Book review)
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2007 ;     118 words ...9780821416907 The rescue of Joshua Glover; a fugitive slave, the Constitution, and the coming of the Civil War...constitutional history, Georgia State U.) recounts the rescue of fugitive slave Joshua Glover in 1854 by people in Wisconsin, telling...rescuers and the state's Supreme Court decision that ...

Article: Contraband, Slaves as
Dictionary of American History;      559 words ......Butler finessed the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. His action justified employing...policy went into effect, the Fugitive Slave Act, which was not repealed by...E. May See also Civil War ; Fugitive Slave Acts ; Slavery ; and vol. 9...

Article: Compromise of 1850
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      506 words ......all parties. A tough new Fugitive Slave Act , designed to stop interference...the capture and return of fugitive slaves, empowered federal...Congress also banned public slave‐trading in Washington...unconstitutional. Finally, the slave state Texas relinquished...controversial ...

Article: Slave Rescue Cases
Dictionary of American History;      627 words ...SLAVE RESCUE CASES SLAVE RESCUE...Ellen Crafts. The first fugitive slave law was passed in 1787...slave insurrection. The Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850 was much...abolitionist fears that the Fugitive Slave Act encouraged the unlawful...also ...

Article: Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case
Dictionary of American History;      148 words ......rescue case grew out of a rescue party's release of a fugitive slave in 1858 in Oberlin, Ohio; the slave had been in the...and students of the college, were indicted under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. From their jail in Cleveland, they published...Gilbert Hobbs Barnes / a. r. See also ...

Article: Dismantling Lincoln 'Myths'.(Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream)(Brief Article)(Review)
The Chicago Reporter;  July 1, 2001 ;     354 words ......for the Civil War. Lincoln also supported the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which mandated that whites return escaped slaves...president-elect, Lincoln pledged to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act better than any other Southern White man, Bennett...