Project Gutenberg 2004-11-09 Public domain in the USA. 124 May, Samuel 1810 1899 11008415 The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 Reading ease score: 69.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Curtis Weyant, Andrea Ball and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims" by Samuel May is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. The work discusses a significant piece of legislation enacted by Congress in 1850, which intensified the struggle between the North and the South regarding slavery and the treatment of escaped slaves. This text likely examines the implications of the law, its enforcement, and its impact on both free and enslaved individuals. The opening of the text provides a detailed synopsis of the Fugitive Slave Law, highlighting its provisions that empowered authorities to apprehend and return escaped slaves with little due process. It describes the responsibilities placed upon U.S. officials and local law enforcement to assist in the capture, detailing penalties for non-compliance. Additionally, the text introduces a record of victims affected by the law, conveying the harsh realities they faced, including violence, subjugation, and the complexities of legal battles in an era marked by deep moral and political divisions over slavery. This sets the stage for a harrowing exploration of personal stories intertwined with legal and societal issues surrounding the enforcement of the law. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en United States -- Fugitive slave law (1850) Fugitive slaves -- United States E300 Text Slavery Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - General 168422 168166 2024-10-06T10:47:21.150160 2023-10-06T11:22:37.388350 text/html text/html 166389 2020-12-18T15:05:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 62197 2020-12-18T15:05:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 146048 2024-10-06T10:47:27.882600 application/epub+zip 148605 2024-10-06T10:47:24.608167 application/epub+zip 121111 2024-10-06T10:47:23.359134 application/epub+zip 293538 2024-10-06T10:47:30.314616 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 284876 2024-10-06T10:47:27.105115 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 265661 2022-09-07T13:59:57.243866 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 169088 169012 2024-10-06T10:47:20.722161 2023-10-06T11:22:37.056370 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 169035 2020-12-18T15:05:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 61790 2020-12-18T15:05:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 169026 2020-12-18T15:05:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 61771 2020-12-18T15:05:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21749 2024-10-06T10:47:30.442835 application/rdf+xml 14658 2024-10-06T10:47:23.911125 image/jpeg 3233 2024-10-06T10:47:23.631126 image/jpeg 147793 2024-10-06T10:47:21.166155 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog