Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in Favor of Repealing the Laws of States Or Territories which Render Persons of Color Liable to Arrest and Imprisonment and to be Sold for Jail Fees. April 1, 1844. Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in Favor of Repealing the Laws of States Or Territories which Render Persons of Color Liable to Arrest and Imprisonment and to be Sold for Jail Fees
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
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Category : Arrest
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Category : Arrest
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
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The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1528
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1528
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Dictionary Catalog of the Jesse E. Moorland Collection of Negro Life and History, Howard University Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Moorland Foundation
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Freedom at Risk
Author: Carol Wilson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks were not able to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of white Americans. They lived with the constant threat of kidnapping and enslavement, against which they had little recourse. Most kidnapped free blacks were forcibly abducted, but other methods, such as luring victims with job offers or falsely claiming free people as fugitive slaves, were used as well. Kidnapping of blacks was actually facilitated by numerous state laws, as well as the federal fugitive slave laws of 1793 and 1850. Greed motivated kidnappers, who were assured high profits on the sale of their victims. As the internal slave trade increased in the early nineteenth century, so did kidnapping. If greed provided the motivation for the crime, racism helped it to continue unabated. Victims usually found it extremely difficult to regain their freedom through a legal system that reflected society's racist views, perpetuated a racial double standard, and considered all blacks slaves until proven otherwise. Fortunate was the victim who received assistance, sometimes from government officials, most often from abolitionists. Frequently, however, the black community was forced to protect its own and organized to do so, sometimes by working within the law, sometimes by meeting violence with violence. Mining newspaper accounts, memoirs, slave narratives, court records, letters, abolitionist society minutes, and government documents, Carol Wilson has provided a needed addition to our picture of free black life in the United States.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks were not able to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of white Americans. They lived with the constant threat of kidnapping and enslavement, against which they had little recourse. Most kidnapped free blacks were forcibly abducted, but other methods, such as luring victims with job offers or falsely claiming free people as fugitive slaves, were used as well. Kidnapping of blacks was actually facilitated by numerous state laws, as well as the federal fugitive slave laws of 1793 and 1850. Greed motivated kidnappers, who were assured high profits on the sale of their victims. As the internal slave trade increased in the early nineteenth century, so did kidnapping. If greed provided the motivation for the crime, racism helped it to continue unabated. Victims usually found it extremely difficult to regain their freedom through a legal system that reflected society's racist views, perpetuated a racial double standard, and considered all blacks slaves until proven otherwise. Fortunate was the victim who received assistance, sometimes from government officials, most often from abolitionists. Frequently, however, the black community was forced to protect its own and organized to do so, sometimes by working within the law, sometimes by meeting violence with violence. Mining newspaper accounts, memoirs, slave narratives, court records, letters, abolitionist society minutes, and government documents, Carol Wilson has provided a needed addition to our picture of free black life in the United States.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, Against Slavery in the United States, in Favor of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, and the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. January 3, 1856. -- Ordered to Lie on the Table, and be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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CIS U.S. Serial Set Index: American state papers and the 15th-34th Congresses, 1789- 1857. 3 v
Author: Congressional Information Service
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, Asking a Distribution of a Portion of the Public Lands Among the States for Educational Purposes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Category : Federal aid to education
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Category : Federal aid to education
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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