(May 9, 2019 at 4:27 pm)Thena323 Wrote:(May 9, 2019 at 3:27 pm)Amarok Wrote: Nope it simply doesn't refute my point and by "agenda " you mean holding the US government responsible for it's role sorry that not an "agenda" that simply a FACT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_S...ct_of_1850
Quote:By 1843, several hundred slaves a year were successfully escaping to the North, making slavery an unstable institution in the border states.[2]
The earlier Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a Federal law which was written with the intent to enforce Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of runaway slaves. It sought to force the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/prima...-slave-act
Quote:Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
*Brought to you by the (noticeably non-African) 31st US Congress...Lol
And which members of the current US Congress voted for either of those acts?
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