Useful Links
This day in history: Fugitive Slave Act Passed
Lessons + resources that can be used to teach about the act
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fugitive-slave-act/
Lessons + resources that can be used to teach about the act
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fugitive-slave-act/
Primary Sources
Compromise of 1850: Primary Documents in American History
https://guides.loc.gov/compromise-1850/digital-resources congressional publications, exhibitions, historic newspapers, manuscripts, maps, Rare Books, Pamphlets, and Printed Ephemera text of the fugitive slave act https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/fugitive-slave-act Runaway Slave Advertisement from Antebellum Virginia https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/499 A broadside announcing the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-underground-railroad-and-the-fugitive-slave-act-of-1850/sources/1047 “Leap of the Fugitive Slave,” an 1880 drawing of a woman leaping to her death rather than be returned to her master. Brown, William Wells, “Leap of the fugitive slave,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/ed379690559ba1da0fb6370e9b6efffd. An 1850 political cartoon, “Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law,” showing four escaped slaves being recaptured by armed white men “Civil War. Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law, Cartoon from Newspaper,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/a6677babc0f3f1e769ab473e1db98a50. A Southern Newspaper Lashes out against the Fugitive Slave Law https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/933 “Poster calling for meeting in Camillus in 1852 to protest the Fugitive Slave Law,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/863ac78951225b8bbf0a1bc14ebe5a1c. An excerpt from The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, an 1861 antislavery book listing cases of individuals targeted by the Fugitive Slave Law. http://dp.la/item/2a8c4dcae9bc48e9da5bcd5e8269105a. Slave kidnap post 1851 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Slave_kidnap_post_1851_boston.jpg An excerpt from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by William Craft, 1860. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-underground-railroad-and-the-fugitive-slave-act-of-1850/sources/1048 |
Lessons
Lesson: The History of Slave Patrols, Black Codes, and Vagrancy Laws
https://www.facinghistory.org/educator-resources/current-events/policing-legacy-racial-injustice/history-slave-patrols-black-codes-vagrancy-laws
(Excerpt + text dependent questions)
https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/texts/hard-history/the-fugitive-slave-bill
different sections of the fugitive slave act + quiz
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1584461289/brockton/cbh2hbesy8vyn3r5lqus/Grade9TheFugitiveSlaveAct-PrimarySource.pdf
Related Information
In one of the most celebrated fugitive slave cases in California, Archy Lee, a young black man who had been brought to the state from Mississippi, escaped and waged a successful legal battle for his freedom that went all the way to the federal courts.
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/archy-lee.html
In the first test of California’s , three formerly enslaved black men who had built a lucrative mining supply business were stripped of their freedom and deported back to Mississippi.
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/gold-rush.html
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/archy-lee.html
In the first test of California’s , three formerly enslaved black men who had built a lucrative mining supply business were stripped of their freedom and deported back to Mississippi.
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/gold-rush.html