Sample Sentences forFugitive Slave Law (auto-selected)
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In December, 1849, most of the speeches made in Congress dealt with the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law.† (source)
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We know that he refused to denounce the Fugitive Slave Law, viciously unfair though it was, even to free Negroes charged as runaways.† (source)
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What about the Fugitive Slave Law being enforced, said the South?† (source)
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The Fugitive Slave Law had not then passed.† (source)
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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)
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Its key features were five in number: (1) California was to be admitted as a free (non-slaveholding) state; (2) New Mexico and Utah were to be organized as territories 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)
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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)
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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)
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The Fugitive Slave Law was one of the concessions made to the South as part of the Compromise of 1850.† (source)
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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)
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The Fugitive Slave Law.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Up until 185 1, she was either unaware of the danger posed by the Fugitive Slave Law, or else she ignored it.† (source)
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I told him of the Fugitive Slave Law, and asked him if he did not know that New York was a city of kidnappers.† (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)
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