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@bulliessuck2024.bsky.socialThe #FugitiveSlaveAct was among the most divisive laws of the early 19th century.
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#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
Read more about the Fugitive Slave Acts on History.com
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@bulliessuck2024.bsky.socialThe #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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#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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@bulliessuck2024.bsky.social1850: 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.
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#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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@aam-em.bsky.socialAmerica didn’t just allow slavery.
It funded it.
Paid for it.
Protected it.
This is how slave catchers became legal.
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@johnautry.bsky.socialSeptember 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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@aam-em.bsky.socialThe Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 repeating in 2025
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@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialA #FugitiveSlaveAct passed Congress in 1850 on #ThisDayInHistory as part of the #CompromiseOf1850. It required officials and citizens of anti-slavery states return escapees, and was following by a new #liberal party (the #RepublicanParty) and to #BleedingKansas and the #CivilWar.
@theoff-keybard.bsky.social
@thedailyhistorian.bsky.socialAt its centre was a question that would become impossible to avoid: could a government claim to protect slavery while people who had escaped slavery actively resisted being returned to it?
#ChristianaResistance #AmericanHistory #FugitiveSlaveAct #Abolition #UndergroundRailroad #BlackHistory
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