House and Senate Documents: Resolutions of Legislature of Maryland on rescue of arrested fugitive enslaved persons, 1844
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Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of the passage of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding States to recover slaves when escaping into the non slaveholding states.
House and Senate Documents: Legislature of Kentucky, for passage of law of Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding States to recover enslaved persons escaping into non-slaveholding States, 1847
Recovery of fugitive slaves
American State Papers: Recovery of fugitive enslaved persons, 1821
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
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 1850
The Oberlin Rescue
News article: on legal cases involving the fugitive slave act and the Oberlin Rescue, 1859
An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 1793
Petitions for repeal of fugitive slave act of 1850, and all other acts for rendition of fugitive slaves
House and Senate Reports: Petition to repeal all fugitive slave acts., 1864
Resolutions of legislature of Ohio, on repeal of fugitive slave law
House and Senate Reports: Resolution to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850., 1856
Fugitive Slave Act. Resolves of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the Fugitive Slave Law.
House and Senate Reports: Resolutions of legislature of Massachusetts, on repeal of fugitive slave law, 1855
No More Slave-Hunting: The Fugitive Slave Act.
News article: On repealing the fugitive slave act, 1864
The Fugitive Slave Act Unconstitutional.
News article: On a legal case involving the fugitive slave act and its constitutional status, 1854
Decision of Judge Smith: The Fugitive Slave Act Declared Unconstitutional.
News article: On a legal case involving the fugitive slave act and its constitutional status, 1854
Selections: Anti-Slavery Meeting. The American Fugitive Slave Act.
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1851
The Daily Advertiser as Counsel for Judge Curtis.
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1855
The Work of Nationalizing Slavery.
News article: on the fugitive slave act, including the opinion from the Attorney General, 1855
Selections: ‘Manifest Destiny’ of the American Union
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1857
Mass Convention Against the Fugitive Slave Law: Declare
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1859
Important Law Case.
News article: on a legal case involving the fugitive slave act, 1852
The Oberlin Habeas Corpus: Decision of the Ohio Supreme Court. Judge Swan’s Opinion. Judge Brinkerhoff’s Opinion.
News article: on a legal case involving the fugitive slave act, 1859
The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue: An Anti-Slavery Crisis Which Almost Precipated the Civil War in 1859 through the Secession of the North Painful Death the Scene of Conflict the Underground Railroad the Capture the Rescue the Majesty of the Law the Legal Issue the Political Aspect in a Felon’s Cell Upholsters and Mattress Makers. Hogskin Saddle and Harnessmaking. Boot and Shoe Shop. ‘Negro-Catching in Boston v. Negro-Catching in Cleveland.’ Two-Score Years After
News article: On the Oberlin Rescue, 1896
The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts
A play by William Wells Brown: The Escape, 1858
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
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 1850
An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 1793