The fugitive slave act of 1850

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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 - Mistakes Were Made

By the mid-1800s hundreds of slaves were escaping to the northern states. This made slave masters unhappy of course because they were losing valuable “property.” Southerners started raiding into northern states to recapture the slaves, but many of the raids failed because the northern states...

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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 - Mistakes Were Made

By the mid-1800s hundreds of slaves were escaping to the northern states. This made slave masters unhappy of course because they were losing valuable “property.” Southerners started raiding into northern states to recapture the slaves, but many of the raids failed because the northern states...

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This law was in force from 1850 until 1864. Thanks for the Article

 

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The fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger Brooke Taney believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."