The words "no person held to service" included every slave in the United States.
No person held to service or labor in one state under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from said service or labor.
In the provision for the recovery of fugitives, the slave is spoken of as a "person held to service or labor.
That the expression "person held to service or labor" was a correct definition of the condition of a slave, at the time the Constitution was adopted, is evident.
A person from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States" means the same as "a person held to service or labor in one State under the laws thereof.
It speaks not of a slave, but of a "person held to service or labor.
In speaking of a person held to labor the Constitution intends to speak of a slave, and the article amounts to a fugitive slave law.
The words of the clause are, "No person held to service or labor in one State," &c.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "person held" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
