The Slavery Of Slavery And Slavery

According to Foner (2014), United States of America and slavery had a long history. The history of slavery and slave trade dates back in 1619 where African slaves were taken to the colony Jamestown in North America. The main reason of the slave trade was to increase the economy of America through where slaves provided free labor on the farms and plantation. Slavery became the norm in America during 17th and 18th century in both North and South. Following the invention of the cotton in 1793 that caused slavery growth in America particularly in the south because it was considered as an important driver of the economy. Some parties strongly criticized the whole idea of a painful route of canceling it causing the formation of myriad anti-slavery movement. Lack of quality in support of slavery leads to fugitives from slavery cause the formation of various fugitive slave acts. In this regard, this discussion intends to verify how fugitive slave acts caused the split between North and South America.

Fugitive slave acts were only two federal laws that were aimed at capturing and returning runaway slaves to states and territories of United States “Courts of the United States shall from time to time enlarge the number of the commissioners, with a view to afford reasonable facilities to reclaim fugitives from labor”(Digital History, 2012). The first 1783 Fugitive Slave Act gave unlimited power to local government to get hold of the runaway slave and return them to their owners. Additionally, the law provided a heavy penalty of parties that aided the slave runway. This law came at a time when most of the northern states highly opposed the slavery ideas and they wanted it to be completely cancelled (Digital History, 2012). The dislike of ...

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... the argument the war ended with the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Acts.

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