Fugitive Slave Act quotes

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I have lived for the last month--and I think that every man in Massachusetts capable of the sentiment of patriotism must have had ...
I hear a good deal said about trampling this law under foot. Why, one need not go out of his way to do that. This law rises not to ...
Massachusetts sat waiting Mr. Loring's decision.... It was really the trial of Massachusetts. Every moment that she hesitated to s ...
Much has been said about American slavery, but I think that we do not even yet realize what slavery is. If I were seriously to pro ...
Three years ago, also, just a week after the authorities of Boston assembled to carry back a perfectly innocent man, and one whom ...
What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. L ...
The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Webster's Fugitive-Slave Bill.
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