Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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215 documents for Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated that states to which escaped slaves fled were obligated to return them to their masters upon ...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Fri–Jam
- Author Labels Fillmore a Failure
Professor Paul Finkelman makes no excuses for Millard Fillmore or his presidency in his biography for the "American Presidents" series for Times Books. He readily describes the legacy of the 13th president of the United States as "disastrous and truly oppressive. The reason can be summed up in just a few words: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
- Buffalo News
- June 21, 2011
- Runaway Slaves Led Buildup to Civil War
The debate over slavery's role in the American Civil War continues 150 years after the war began. Steven Lubet's "Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial" looks at the issue by profiling three cases involving attempts to capture runaway slaves and return them to servitude. Lubet shows how the compromise of 1787 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 influenced attitudes toward the "peculiar institution" of slavery.
- Roanoke Times & World News
- February 28, 2011

- Section 3: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Law Enforcement Duties of the President
... President John Adams for delivering a fugitive from justice to Great Britain under the 27th artic... Pierce that in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, marshals of the United States had aut...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Black Hostility Toward Principles of Liberty Troubling
Having recently reached 74 years of age, if one were to ask me what's my greatest disappointment in life, a top contender would surely be the level of misunderstanding, perhaps contempt, that black Americans have for the principles of personal liberty and their abiding faith in government. Contempt or misunderstanding of the principles of personal liberty and faith in government by no means make blacks unique among Americans, but the unique history of black Americans should make us, above all other Americans, most suspicious of any encroachment on personal liberty and most distrustful of government. Let's look at it. The most serious injustices suffered by blacks came at the hands of government, at different levels, failure to protect personal liberty. Slavery was only the most egregiou...
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- May 05, 2010
- Teesee's Town
[Singer Denyce Graves], internationally renowned mezzo-soprano, will once again sing the title role in the new landmark American opera making its Chicago debut at the acoustically perfect Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, Nov. 1-9, 2008. [Margaret Garner], with a libretto by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison, is based on the true story that inspired her novel Beloved. Garner, a fugitive slave in pre-Civil War America who killed her own daughter in 1856 rather than see the child returned to slavery, was charged with "destruction of property. Margaret Garner is a compelling, heart-wrenching story of a fugitive slave who upon being surrounded by U.S. marshals vowed to take the lives of her children and herself, rather than see her family returned to slavery. As her ...

... Law, the constitutionality of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and particularly whether Margar...
- Chicago Defender
- August 20, 2009
- Life cycles of American legal history through Bob Dylan's eyes.
.... The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 provided for the legal return of...'s enactment of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. (22) . Dylan was fascinated by one of the key pol...
- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Vol. 38 Nbr. 5, October 2011
- The question of the constitutional case against suicide: an historiographical and originalist inquiry into the degree to which the theory of the inalienable right to life and liberty is enforced by the Thirteenth Amendment.
... forbids all forms of suicide and slavery--is now well known to the author's readers. What i... with all its power to return the fugitive to her clutch; and then she could ascend into the ... the mayor of New York more than once in the 1850's and 1860's. (123) His disloyalty to the Union wa...
- Issues in Law & Medicine
- Vol. 26 Nbr. 2, September 2010
- Inside the Beltway [Derived Headline]
PLAYING THE RIGHT SUIT In their quest to prevail, politicians spar with strategic sound bites, then pray for good press. But what about their sartorial demeanor? Canny politicos should also be aware that a power suit renaissance is under way. The inspiration? We're talking old school suits with vests, pleated pants, substantial tie and wide lapels once sported by the likes of Michael Douglas as he portrayed Gordon Gekko in the original "Wall Street," movie. Yes, in 1987.

... NAFTA, all the New Deal legislation, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Embargo Act of 1807, the Am...
- The Washington Times
- July 26, 2011
- Abe's evolution: how Lincoln went from frontier lawyer to Great Emancipator.
... FIERY TRIAL: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner, Norton, 448 pp., $29.95. FEW HISTOR... slavery--and with legislation like the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854...
- American Scholar
- Vol. 79 Nbr. 4, September 2010