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Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics ... - Page 204
by Edward Everett Hale - 1854 - 264 pages
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The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress of the ..., Volume 3

United States - Law - 1839 - 586 pages
...crimes therein specified," approved January thirtieth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine : " An act respecting fugitives .from justice, and persons escaping from the service of iheir masters," approved twelfth February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three : " An Vol....
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A Winter in the West Indies: Described in Familiar Letters to Henry Clay, of ...

Joseph John Gurney - Black people - 1840 - 328 pages
...service or labor ;" and the same care is observable iu the Act of Congress dated February 12th, 1793, " respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." In point of fact, the grand principle, that the property of man in man cannot exist de jure, had been...
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A Winter in the West Indies: Described in Familiar Letters to Henry Clay, of ...

Joseph John Gurney - Blacks - 1840 - 336 pages
...service or labor ;" and the same care is observable in the Act of Congress dated February 12th, 1793, " respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." In point of fact, the grand principle, that the property of man in man cannot exist de jure, had been...
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British and Foreign State Papers

Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1859 - 1464 pages
...commonwealth from taking cognizance of any case under the Act of Congress of February 12, 1793, entitled " An Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters ;'' and also prohibits any sheriff, constable, &c. from arresting, or detaining in any jail or other...
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Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...

Edward Prigg, Richard Peters - Fugitive slaves - 1842 - 154 pages
...Congress passed the twelfth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters," and of this act to make a fair record of the same, in which he shall enter the age, name, sex, and...
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The New Englander, Volume 8

Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...opposition of North and South in disjointed fragments — was a Bill to amend the act entitled "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." This act is familiarly called the Fugitive Slave Law, yet the term slave or slavery does not once occur...
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A Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council at Its ... Session

Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives - Florida - 1843 - 526 pages
...limits, between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty. — Laws of Florida, p. 111. An act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters. — Story's Laws of the US, v. l,p.284. An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 8

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1850 - 678 pages
...opposition of North and South in disjointed fragments — was a Bill to amend the act entitled "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." This act is familiarly called the Fugitive Slave Law, yet the term slave or slavery does not once occur...
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Documents Accompanying the Journal ...

Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1844 - 268 pages
...WAsHINGToN. Nor has it, as the committee are informed, ever been proposed in Congress to repeal it. It is "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." The third section provides that when any person held to labor in any of the states, under their laws,...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 13

Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...opposition of North and South in disjointed fragments— was a Bill to amend the act entitled " An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." This act is familiarly called the Fugitive Slave Law, yet the term slave or slavery does not once occur...
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