MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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It guaranteed a trial by jury for enslaved African Americans captured in the North.
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It prohibited slave owners and slave traders from tracking runaway slaves in the North.
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It jeopardized the safety of African Americans in the North, forcing many to flee to Canada.
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It allowed enslaved African Americans to purchase their freedom, once they escaped to the North.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The passage of the Fugitive Slave Acts resulted in many free blacks being illegally captured and sold into slavery. One famous case concerned Solomon Northup, a freeborn black musician who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Fugitive Slave Act sparked the largest migration wave of African Americans into Canada in the 19th century. The self-emancipated men and women who settled in Canada continued to fight against enslavement in the US after their successful flight, and engaged in various abolitionist activities.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal. To abolitionists, this represented a huge blow to their efforts. Not only had the federal government endorsed slavery, but it had also committed to preserving the institution indefinitely.
Detailed explanation-4: -Even though the northern states could abolish slavery, as they did, they still could not avoid their Constitutional obligation to enforce the slave laws of the southern states. A fugitive slave carried with him the legal status of slavery, even into a territory which didn’t have slavery.