User-Created Clip by tgrane May 12, 2020 2013-04-08T22:22:46-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it a crime for a citizen to harbor a runaway slave or to offer any assistance to slaves who had run away from their masters. The act was part of the compromise of ...

In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act required all citizens to assist in capturing escaped slaves. Refusal or helping fugitives meant fines or jail. Accused fugitives couldn’t testify or get a jury trial.

If former President Donald Trump were to be re-elected, his search for, arrest, incarceration, adjudication and deportation of illegal aliens may cause the more thoughtful among us to harken back to ...

The Fugitive Slave Act, part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850," forced Northern states to return escaped slaves. In this compromise, anti-slavery advocates gained the ...

Vermonters were up in arms. Congress had just struck a deal with the devil, they believed, by caving in to the Southern slave states. The Vermont Legislature responded aggressively by passing a law to ...

User-Created Clip September 10, 2021 2019-01-12T18:06:53-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/437/20190112182410003_hd.jpgAndrew Delbanco, author of The War Before ...

"Unsubstantiated reports of ICE and CBP activity in Stanislaus County fuel fear, anxiety," (modbee.com, Jan. 16) In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act required all citizens to assist in capturing escaped ...