THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820
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Canada was closed to the idea of new people.
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Canada was allowing a limited amount of new people.
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A slave living anywhere in the US was not safe.
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Most slaves went out to the western frontier.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many United Empire Loyalists fled to that colony after the American Revolution and brought enslaved Africans with them as duty-free “property.” In the British and French colonies, violence was part of daily life for enslaved people of African descent.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -The earlier Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a Federal law that was written with the intent to enforce Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of escaped slaves. It sought to force the authorities in free states to return fugitives of enslavement to their enslavers.