The repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law remits the question of restoring 'persons held to service' to the safeguards of trial by jury, but has no further force.
Hence, the famous provisions for the rendition of 'persons held to service' (art.
Everybody knows that this section of the Constitution has been heretofore practically a dead letter, albeit as fully a part of the supreme law as that other provision in the same section for the rendition of 'persons held to service.
We care not, since our slaves are there recognized as "persons held to service" by those to whom "such service is due.
Nor shall Congress have power to authorize any higher rate of taxation on Persons held to Labor or Service than on land.
The bringing into the District of Columbia of Persons held to Labor or Service, for sale, or placing them in depots to be afterwards transferred to other places for sale as merchandize, is prohibited.
Thus, as the indispensable condition of union, the provision was made for the rendition of persons held to labor in the slave States.
It was determined that "persons held to service or labour" escaping into another State should be returned to those "to whom such service or labour may be due.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persons held" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
