A. Plan of the Investigation
This investigation will evaluate how the North’s and South’s political viewpoint of the Fugitive Slave Act cause division between the two parts of the country? The focus of this investigation is to analyze the North’s and South’s criticism of Fugitive Slave Law and how their political views create division between the United States furthermore leading to factors a Civil War factor. In order to do this, criticisms will be reviewed analyzing the Fugitive Slave articles from both the North and South and interpreting their views on the Fugitive Slave Law. The investigation will also evaluate, the Fugitive Slave Act and how this Act enhanced the disunion between the states by looking at the criticism from both the Confederates and the Union.
B. Summary Of Evidence
According to Rochester the Fugitive Slave Act, is a law that was created on February 12, 1793 targeting the runaway slaves and bring them to justice. (Rochester 16) It Law states that if a runaway slave passes west or south of the Ohio River then they were considered a Fugitive from Justice. (Rochester 16) As a result of running away the law also stated that if a fugitive slave is the custody of anybody, he or she must transport them back to the state or territory which they had fled from. It stated that if person refuses to give up a slave, then the slave owner had the right to arrest or seize the slave from anyone. (Rochester 17) It further enacted that anybody who was refuse to cooperate with the law and give up a slave would have to pay a fine of five hundred dollars or be arrested. (Rochester 17) When the Fugitive Law was enforced many Northerners refuse to acknowledge the law because they considered it unethical. In the artic...
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The change was not considered in an emptiness; the explanation behind this development of force, and for the correction overall, is found in the more extensive connection of the mid nineteenth-century South and the unescapable mistreatment of the free dark population residence there In considering the way of Southern race relations, both previously, then after the fact the Civil War, the designers of the Fourteenth Amendment came to trust that total a radical development of the forces of the central government over the states would empower them. Congress has power to enforce this article “Equal Protection.” His speech combined the moral fervor of the abolitionists with the respect for order and the constitution of more conservative northerners, if slavery were allowed to expand, he warned, the “love of liberty” would be extinguished and with it American’s special mission to be a symbol of democracy for the entire world.
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...if they slave were sent back into slavery. The Fugitive Slave law of 1850 was enforced greatly.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, slavery in the United States faced an uncertain future. Many had predicted that Industrial America would eventually eradicate slavery, but the introduction of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin impeded those predictions. This increased the profitability of slavery as each decade passed until the time of the American Civil War. This offended most people of America, especially Northerners. People who are against slavery and are willing to take action and end the practice of slavery are known as abolitionists. These “anti-slaveryites” took huge risks and went through drastic punishments all to end the very nuisance that flawed America, slavery.
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Throughout this course we learned about slavery and it's effects on our country and on African Americans. Slavery and racism is prevalent throughout the Americas before during and after Thomas Jefferson's presidency. Some people say that Jefferson did not really help stop any of the slavery in the United States. I feel very differently and I will explain why throughout this essay. Throughout this essay I will be explaining how views of race were changed in the United States after the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, and how the events of the Jeffersonian Era set the stage for race relations for the nineteenth century.
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