Defying the System of Slavery Andrew McKenna Jose Quintero

made Northern California to enter the union as a free state Buying and selling slaves in Washington, D.C. was outlawed. In the south, the land received from Mexico was broken up into two states, New Mexico and Utah. In these states, settlers decided whether they wanted slavery or not. The compromise of 1850

Fugitive slave act a act that was seen as hash act passed to insure escaped slave returned if caught it prohibited a trial for the slave they could not testify on their own behalf and the slave would have to return to the owner

the law the rights of the former slaves were compromised 6th amendment was broken do to the law forbidding them form a trial also they could not testify on there behalf

enforcement it was well enforce because the commissioner that enforced the law would reseve $10 if the slave returned but only $5 if let free any one found helping a a fugitive slave was finned 1,000 and or 6 months in prison also bounties were placed by richer plantations

Northern States against the fugitive slave act Northerners organized vigilance committees to send endangered african americans to safety in canada. Some resorted to violence to rescue fugitive slaves. Nine northern states passed personal liberty laws. These laws forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves, and guaranteed that they would have jury trials.

underground rail roads the conductors harriet tubman a leader in the railroads once a escaped slave thomas garrett a famed check point house samuel burris a leading conductor in Maryland the railroad it was a system used to help slave escape to the north it was illegal and dangers for any one caught helping it was a series tunnels trails and houses that led to the north providing food clothes and shelter to most who made it

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin stirred strong reactions from North and South alike the north found it in shocking in how the south treated the slave the south was furious this is how they were portrayed

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