Welcome, good to have you here. I hope you and your staff are mining the history of Massachusetts' resistance to the #FugitiveSlaveAct for ideas to adapt for our current situation: masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/m...
"if you want liberty, run!” Hossack urged, dragging Gray from the courthouse. They jumped a fence, climbed into a waiting carriage and were sped out of town.
Gray escaped north to Canada. But Hossack was arrested and sent to stand trial in federal court in Chicago."
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#ICE
#ShadrachMinkins, an escaped #slave, was captured in Boston under the #FugitiveSlaveAct on #ThisDayInHistory in 1850. But as #USMarshals walked him into the courthouse, #abolitionists chose #DirectAction, overpowered them, freed Minkins, and spirited him up to Canada and freedom.
The #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 was not well enforced due to widespread opposition to it in 1793.
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#AmericanSlavery
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According to HITORY.com, the #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 “authorized local governments to seize and return escapees to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.”
Facts: This was the first Fugitive Slave Act passed after the United States Constitution was ratified.
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#OTD in #History 1793
February 12: #FugitiveSlaveAct Signed into Law
Summary: Fugitive Slave Act was a civil statute about returning “fugitives from labor” [i.e., slaves, apprentices, or indentured servants] to their [white] masters.
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericanHistory
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Historians are reexamining a concealed passage at the Merchant’s House Museum. Underground Railroad hideaway—or a myth? Explore the evidence and tell us where you land. #Abolitionism #FugitiveSlaveAct #MerchantsHouseMuseum #NewYorkCityHistory #UndergroundRailroad
Communist Party USA U.S. Congress updated the #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793, wherein policing to maintain the slave system became a national priority, and U.S. marshals became slave catchers.
In the 19th Century, as the U.S. sought to force its way into more #NativeAmericansterritory, #white colonists
The #FugitiveSlaveAct was among the most divisive laws of the early 19th century.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
Read more about the Fugitive Slave Acts on History.com
www.history.com/topics/black...
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The #FugitiveSlaveAct also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning & trying slaves who escaped. It also added more provisions regarding runaways and imposed even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture.
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1850: The #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1850 was Signed into Law by President Millard Fillmore
Summary: The new Fugitive Slave Act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they escaped to a free state.
ugly #AmericanHistory
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Fugitive Slave Act
September 18, 1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing owners to reclaim the enslaved who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves.
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Historical poster warning colored people in Boston about police acting as kidnappers and slave catchers, urging vigilance. Dated April 24, 1851.
#OnThisDay in #history, the 1850 #FugitiveSlaveAct was passed. Going beyond the 1793 act, this new law compelled Northern authorities and ordinary citizens to report on fugitives and help slave catchers retrieve them. 📝Joshua J. Mark: www.worldhistory.org/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_18... #Slavery
I woke up with the name Millard Fillmore in my head this morning, WTF? Our 13th President, ascended when Taft pigged out on what would now be called ice cream with cherries. Yep. HIs claim to fame was he signed the #FugitiveSlaveAct. Why is Millard Fillmore in my head? #TarotSky
“a federal statute known as the #PosseComitatusAct, enacted in 1878, limits the use of the US #Army (and, as amended, the US #AirForce, #Navy, #MarineCorps, and #SpaceForce), as a posse comitatus or for law enforcement purposes without the approval of Congress”
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Why administration wants to erase specific history in the Smithsonian Museums. Maybe visitors will find out that the country has seen this all of before - especially in Boston. #fugitiveslaveact www.nps.gov/articles/000...
Slavery is Bad.
This New Orleans Daily dates back to 1854. We will use it during our pre #CivilWar unit to talk about the #FugitiveSlaveAct.
Slave catching is back. #FugitiveSlaveAct era
#ICE brings back the #FugitiveSlaveAct
#ICE=FugitiveSlaveAct2025
New Trump slogan...
Make Slavery Legal Again or how about
#Kidnappers'R'US
substack.com/@politicsusa...
The #ICE bounty hunters are akin to those who hunted #FugitiveSlaves
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#JelaniCobb
#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory
omg. it really is the goddam #FugitiveSlaveAct in our country! Any person can abduct any other person for any reason, with no consequences??!! Political disappearances. It is also #HumanTrafficking !!!
These #ICE raids and disappearances are EXACTLY like the #FugitiveSlaveAct !!!!!!!!
The fugitive slave act for your uterus. #theywanttoownyou #1860 #fugitiveslaveact
The #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 was not well enforced due to widespread opposition to it in 1793.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#AmericanSlavery
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According to HITORY.com, the #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 “authorized local governments to seize and return escapees to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.”
Facts: This was the first Fugitive Slave Act passed after the United States Constitution was ratified.
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#OTD in #History 1793
February 12: #FugitiveSlaveAct Signed into Law
Summary: Fugitive Slave Act was a civil statute about returning “fugitives from labor” [i.e., slaves, apprentices, or indentured servants] to their [white] masters.
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericanHistory
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