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William Jones. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 56.).

House and Senate Reports: Illegal arrest and imprisonment of William Jones, free man of color in District of Columbia, 1844

Resolutions, for declaratory clauses to Constitution to secure certain propositions in relation to slavery

Resolutions on legal protection of enslaved persons as property., 1860

Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, in relation to slavery and the domestic slave trade

Legislature of New Hampshire, for extinction of slavery in District of Columbia, exclusion of slavery from Oregon and other territories, suppression of domestic slave-trade, and against admission of any new State into Union tolerating slavery, 1847

Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas on the subject of slavery.

Legislature of Texas, on slavery in States, territories, and District of Columbia, 1850

Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, relative to slavery in the territories and District of Columbia.

Resolutions of legislature of Connecticut on slavery in Territories and District of Columbia, 1849

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

Runaway Slaves.

News article on runaway enslaved persons that were captured., 1848

Washington’s Runaway Slave

News article: Story of a runaway enslaved person who escaped after General Washington died., 1845

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

An Address: to the Anti-Slavery Christians of the United States

News article: An address by the anti-slavery Christians of the United States on slavery and the fugitive slave act, 1852

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

News article: Transcription of a speech given by Gerrit Smith on the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1854

Our Own Correspondence.: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Unconstitutional

News article: On the Fugitive Slave Act and the Constitution, 1857

The Fugitive Slave Law an Expensive ‘Institution’

News article: On the expenses required to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, 1858

Selections: Appeal in Behalf of the Fugitive

News article: Selections from Lydia Maria Child’s Appeal in Behalf of the Fugitive, 1860

Fugitive Slave Narrative

Anonymous narrative of a fugitive enslaved person, n.d.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland, in favor of a law for the better security of the rights of the owners of runaway slaves.

House and Senate Documents: Legislature of Maryland, for law for better security of rights of owners of runaway enslaved persons, 1844

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