https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq Fugitive Slave Act Project en-us 2021-06-10 01:22:49 UTC 2023-02-17 13:00:47 UTC hello@padlet.com spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597267371 Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escapees to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.]]> 2021-06-10 01:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597267371 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597290452 inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Clause in the U.S. Constitution, anti-slavery sentiment remained high in the north and many petitioned Congress to abolish the practice outright.]]> 2021-06-10 01:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597290452 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597293716 Bowing to further pressure from Southern lawmakers who argued the slave debate was driving a wedge between the newly created states Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.]]> 2021-06-10 01:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597293716 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597302355 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was immediately met with a firestorm of criticism.  Northerners bristled at the idea of turning their states into a stalking ground for bounty hunters, and many argued the law was tantamount to legalized kidnapping.]]> 2021-06-10 01:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597302355 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597305852 The legality of Personal Liberty Laws was eventually challenged in the 1842 Supreme court case Prigg v Pennsylvania. The case concerned Edward Prigg, a Maryland man who was convicted of kidnapping after he captured a suspected slave in Pennsylvania.]]> 2021-06-10 01:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597305852 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597315492 Following increased pressure from Southern politicians, Congress passed a revised Fugitive Slave Act in 1850.]]> 2021-06-10 01:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597315492 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597319894 Part of Henry Clays famed Compromise of 1850 a group of bills that helped quiet early calls for Southern secession this new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaways. It also denied enslaved people the right to a jury trial and increased the penalty for interfering with the rendition process to $1,000 and six months in jail.]]> 2021-06-10 01:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597319894 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597328275 Widespread opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 saw the law become virtually unenforceable in certain Northern states, and by 1860 only around 330 enslaved people had been successfully returned to their Southern masters.]]> 2021-06-10 01:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597328275 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597334992 Republican and Free Soil congressmen regularly introduced bills and resolutions related to repealing the Fugitive Slave Act, but the law persisted until after the beginning of the Civil war. And on June 28, 1864 both of the Fugitive Slave Acts were repealed by an act of Congress.]]> 2021-06-10 01:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597334992 spencer_sengmanyvong1 https://padlet.com/spencer_sengmanyvong1/atdf5o1i3ncsxatq/wish/1597349315


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