 | University of Wisconsin--Madison Center for the Study of the American - 1995 - 289 Seiten
...West Indies. Several attempts to amend the fugitive slave law failed in the early national period. 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,... | |
 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - 1998 - 352 Seiten
...JB Lippincott, 1975). 76. "Document 31: An act to amend, and supplementary to, the act entitled 'An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons...from the service of their masters,' approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninetythree," reprint in Albert P. Blaustein and Robert Zangrando,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun, Clyde Norman Wilson - 1959 - 727 Seiten
...Territories, under a certain Act of Congress, passed on the 12th day of February, 1793, entitled "An Act respecting fugitives from justice and 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... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - 1999 - 494 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - 1998 - 276 Seiten
...and our Representatives requested, to introduce and vote for a bill to repeal an act entitled " an act respecting fugitives from justice and 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 R. McKivigan - 1999 - 392 Seiten
...population,1i0 clarifying and enabling legislation was definitely needed. The first clarifying law was "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters" passed on February 12, 1793.1M It required that a number of specific procedures be followed. An indictment... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 2000 - 333 Seiten
...Law of 1793 SECOND CONGRESS— SEss. 2, CHAP. 7, 1793 Statute 2, February 12, 1793 CHAP. VII. — AN ACT respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, United States Capitol Historical Society - 2000 - 344 Seiten
...February 5, 1793, after a brief debate the day before merely noted in the Annals: the four-section "Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters," which was signed into law a week later by President George Washington.57 The legislative history of... | |
 | Wendy S. Wilson, Gerald H. Herman - 2000 - 154 Seiten
...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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AN ACT To AMEND, AND SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE ACT, ENTITLED, "AN ACT RESPECTING FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND PERSONS ESCAPING FROM THE SERVICE OF THEIR MASTERS, 
