 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - Social Science - 1998 - 352 pages
...Enforcement (Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1975). 76. "Document 31: An act to amend, and supplementary to, the act entitled 'An act respecting fugitives from...persons escaping from the service of their masters,' approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninetythree," reprint in Albert P. Blaustein... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to introduce and vote for a bill to repeal an act entitled " an act respecting fugitives from justice...persons escaping from the service of their masters ; and, failing in that, for such a modification of it as shall secure the right of habeas corpus and... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 1959 - 792 pages
...United States or Territories, under a certain Act of Congress, passed on the 12th day of February, 1793, entitled "An Act respecting fugitives from justice...persons escaping from the service of their masters"; nor shall any such Judge, Alderman, or Justice of the Peace issue or grant any certificate or warrant... | |
 | Robert Johnson (Jr.) - Law - 1998 - 552 pages
...provides examples of the sweeping nature of the statute: "Chap. LX- An Act to Amend, and Supplementary to the Act Entitled "An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Services of their Masters," approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - History - 1999 - 554 pages
...compromise contained one extraordinary and particularly painful provision, an amendment to the 1793 Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Service of Their Masters. A stringent new fugitive slave law. Under this law, any person — black or white — could be deputized... | |
 | John R. McKivigan - History - 1999 - 424 pages
...September 18, 1850, Congress, responding to this pressure, passed "An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled 'An Act respecting Fugitives from...Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters, approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred ninety-three/ "m The 1850 Act was an attempt... | |
 | Mason Lowance - Literary Collections - 2000 - 390 pages
...CONGRESS— SESS. 1, CHAP. 60, 1850 September 18, 1850 CHAP. LX. — AN ACT to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled, "An Act respecting Fugitives from...Persons escaping from, the Service of their Masters," approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. Be it enacted by the Senate... | |
 | Wendy S. Wilson, Gerald H. Herman - Education - 2000 - 158 pages
...it hard enough to take care of your own skin." The Fugitive Slave Law, February 1 2, 1 793 (Extract) An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. . . . Section 3. And be it also enacted, That when a person held to labor in any of the United States,... | |
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