CSPAN2 After Words April 8, 2015
But like many parts of the constitution, all little they. It doesnt say who has to return them. The federal government, the state, what procedures, is there a trial or a judge, what happens . It doesnt say that. A fugitive slave law was passed in 1793 a national one but that was weak and they basically put the onus on the owner. If the owner goes up to north and crabbs the fugitive he can take them back. That wasnt that easy to do although there were owners and agencies in this health, slave hunters trying to grab fugitives in the north but were people who resisted them. In 1850 the federal go...
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