Fugitive Slave Lawin a sentence
- In December, 1849, most of the speeches made in Congress dealt with the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law.† (source)
- What about the Fugitive Slave Law being enforced, said the South?† (source)
- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased anti-slavery outrage in the North.
- The Fugitive Slave Law was still in force, though there were few people in the North who would willingly betray a fugitive.† (source)
- Northerners, as far as she could tell from what she saw and heard in her travels, had turned the Fugitive Slave Law into a joke.† (source)
- Up until 185 1, she was either unaware of the danger posed by the Fugitive Slave Law, or else she ignored it.† (source)
- The Fugitive Slave Law was no longer a great many incomprehensible words written down on the country's lawbooks.† (source)
- Because of the Fugitive Slave Law she was liable to be arrested at any moment even though she was living in a free state.† (source)
- The Fugitive Slave Law was one of the concessions made to the South as part of the Compromise of 1850.† (source)
- There the talk was about the new Fugitive Slave Law, now three months old, and what it would mean to people like herself and to the people who offered them shelter.† (source)
- In the letter he not only expressed his own conviction that the Fugitive Slave Law was wrong, but he eloquently expressed the refusal of the Abolitionists to obey the law: "….† (source)
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- It would be a long trip, longer than any she had ever made, through territory that was strange and new to her, with the known hazard of the Fugitive Slave Law pacing her every footstep.† (source)
- The Confederates asked for their rendition under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Law, but they were informed by General Butler that "under the peculiar circumstances, he considered the fugitives 'contraband' of war."† (source)
- More important, they said they would work to make the Fugitive Slave Law a joke, make it as worthless as the Compromise of 1820, which the South had agreed to and then junked as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.† (source)
- …without legislation either for or against slavery, thus running directly contrary to the hotly debated Wilmot Proviso which was intended to prohibit slavery in the new territories; (3) Texas was to be compensated for some territory to be ceded to New Mexico; (4) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia; and (5) a more stringent and enforceable Fugitive Slave Law was to be enacted to guarantee return to their masters of runaway slaves captured in Northern states.† (source)
- Summoning for the last time that spellbinding oratorical ability, he abandoned his previous opposition to slavery in the territories, abandoned his constituents' abhorrence of the Fugitive Slave Law, abandoned his own place in the history and hearts of his countrymen and abandoned his last chance for the goal that had eluded him for over twenty years—the Presidency.† (source)
- Few Northerners could stomach any strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act, the most bitterly hated measure—and untilProhibition, the most flagrantly disobeyed—ever passed by Congress.† (source)
- We know that he refused to denounce the Fugitive Slave Law, viciously unfair though it was, even to free Negroes charged as runaways.† (source)
- The Fugitive Slave Law had not then passed.† (source)
- It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live; it is the torturing whip that lashes manhood out of him; it is the fierce bloodhounds of the South, and the scarcely less cruel human bloodhounds of the north, who enforce the Fugitive Slave Law.† (source)
- I had but one hesitation, and that was feeling of insecurity in New York, now greatly increased by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law.† (source)
- This honorable gentleman would not have voted for the Fugitive Slave Law, as did the senator in "Uncle Tom's Cabin;" on the contrary, he was strongly opposed to it; but he was enough under its influence to be afraid of having me remain in his house many hours.† (source)
- The Fugitive Slave Law.† (source)
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