After this, many States, seeing the advantage thus given them, passed laws which forbade the officers to aid in a fugitive slave case, and also denied the use of their jails for imprisonment.
Mr. Diggs thereupon arrested him as a fugitive slave.
Between the New England colonies no cases have been found recorded, although we infer that there must have been reason for the insertion of a fugitive slave clause in the Articles of Confederation of 1643.
John Rankin, years before Garrison's propaganda, had begun to speak and publish against slavery, and to prepare men's minds for a righteous disregard of Fugitive Slave Acts.
A fugitive slave is, of course, a felon--he not only steals himself, but also the rags on his back which belong to his master.
It cannot be broken by a fugitive slave, or anybody else; no, nor can it be cut with edge of iron.
For the priest of the cruel Diana was not accustomed to be sacrificed, nor had he been a fugitive slave.
But who has told us anything about the breaking, by a fugitive slave, near Aricia, of a golden bough?
The Governor of Pennsylvania lately made a requisition on the Governor of Maryland, for the delivery of a man charged with kidnapping a free black child five years old, born in Pennsylvania of a fugitive slave, and reclaimed with her.
Deputy Marshal, since, by a law of the state, the use of the jail is forbidden for the confinement of a fugitive slave.
Sherwood's Account of an Attempt to secure a Fugitive Slave in his Charge.
On the evening of the 24th of May Anthony Burns was seized there as a fugitive slave, on the claim of a citizen of Virginia, and detained by the marshal in a room of the Court-House.
He is only a man who has volunteered, this third time, against advice, to help catch and keep a fugitive slave.
Next in order comes a Lecture on the "Fugitive Slave Law.
The man was a fugitive slave, and his companion was an Indian woman, converted under the preaching of a missionary among the Indians.
London Great Exhibition opens May ist; a fugitive slave rescued at Boston, Sunday, February 16th, another at Syracuse, N.
Citizens of New York petition for repeal of Fugitive Slave Law, and for emancipation in the District of Columbia.
Why did not Seward honor the requisition of the Governor of Virginia for the return of a fugitive slave?
A heckler asked him: "Are not the provisions of the Constitution respecting the return of a fugitive slave a violation of the law of God?
It provided for the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and for the passage of a fugitive slave law, such as would satisfy the South.
Now, on principle and authority, a claim for the delivery of a fugitive slaveis a suit at Common Law, and is embraced naturally and necessarily in this class of judicial proceedings.
Fugitive Slave Bill, and then said, "I shudder, when I think of these expressions.
If it is wrong for us to return a fugitive slave, it is wrong for us to promise to return one.
If it is wrong for me to return a fugitive slave, it is wrong for me voluntarily to aid or support another man in doing the act.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fugitive slave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
