Category Archives: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters
An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters
An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled “An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters,” approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three
An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled “An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters,” approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three
An Address: to the Anti-Slavery Christians of the United States
Circuit Court of The United States, for the District of Massachusetts: November, 1851. United States v. Robert Morris. The right of the jury to judge of the law.
Decision of Judge Smith: The Fugitive Slave Act Declared Unconstitutional.
Fugitive Slave Act. Resolves of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the Fugitive Slave Law.
Fugitive Slave Narrative
Important Law Case.
Mass Convention Against the Fugitive Slave Law: Declare
No More Slave-Hunting: The Fugitive Slave Act.
No Slavery in Nebraska– No Slavery in the Nation– Slavery an Outlaw: Speech of Gerrit Smith, on the Nebraska Bill, in the U.S. House of Representatives, April 6, 1854
Our Own Correspondence.: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Unconstitutional
Petitions for repeal of fugitive slave act of 1850, and all other acts for rendition of fugitive slaves
Recent American Decisions.: District Court of the United States.–Northern District of New York.–August 17-29, 1851. EX PARTE JOHN DAVIS, PETITIONER FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
Resolutions of legislature of Ohio, on repeal of fugitive slave law
Selections: ‘Manifest Destiny’ of the American Union
Selections: Anti-Slavery Meeting. The American Fugitive Slave Act.
Selections: Appeal in Behalf of the Fugitive
Selections: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, in the Senate of the United States, on his Motion to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill. February 23, 1855.
State Sovereignty and Personal Rights.
The Daily Advertiser as Counsel for Judge Curtis.
The Fugitive Slave Act Unconstitutional.
The Fugitive Slave Law an Expensive ‘Institution’
The Oberlin Habeas Corpus: Decision of the Ohio Supreme Court. Judge Swan’s Opinion. Judge Brinkerhoff’s Opinion.
The Oberlin Rescue
The Work of Nationalizing Slavery.
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 1793
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 1793
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 1850
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 1850
News article: An address by the anti-slavery Christians of the United States on slavery and the fugitive slave act, 1852
News article: On the fugitive slave act as unconstitutional, 1852
News article: On a legal case involving the fugitive slave act and its constitutional status, 1854
House and Senate Reports: Resolutions of legislature of Massachusetts, on repeal of fugitive slave law, 1855
Anonymous narrative of a fugitive enslaved person, n.d.
News article: on a legal case involving the fugitive slave act, 1852
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1859
News article: On repealing the fugitive slave act, 1864
News article: Transcription of a speech given by Gerrit Smith on the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1854
News article: On the Fugitive Slave Act and the Constitution, 1857
House and Senate Reports: Petition to repeal all fugitive slave acts., 1864
News article: On the fugitive slave act, 1851
House and Senate Reports: Resolution to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850., 1856
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1857
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1851
News article: Selections from Lydia Maria Child’s Appeal in Behalf of the Fugitive, 1860
News article: Hon. Charles Sumner’s motion to repeal the fugitive slave act., 1855
News article: On state rights and personal freedoms in regards to the fugitive slave act, 1855
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1855
News article: On a legal case involving the fugitive slave act and its constitutional status, 1854
News article: On the expenses required to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, 1858
News article: on a legal case involving the fugitive slave act, 1859
News article: on legal cases involving the fugitive slave act and the Oberlin Rescue, 1859
News article: on the fugitive slave act, including the opinion from the Attorney General, 1855