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Example sentences for "fugitive slave"

  • After this, many States, seeing the advantage thus given them, passed laws which forbade the officers to aid in a fugitive slave case, and also denied the use of their jails for imprisonment.

  • Mr. Diggs thereupon arrested him as a fugitive slave.

  • Between the New England colonies no cases have been found recorded, although we infer that there must have been reason for the insertion of a fugitive slave clause in the Articles of Confederation of 1643.

  • John Rankin, years before Garrison's propaganda, had begun to speak and publish against slavery, and to prepare men's minds for a righteous disregard of Fugitive Slave Acts.

  • A fugitive slave is, of course, a felon--he not only steals himself, but also the rags on his back which belong to his master.

  • It cannot be broken by a fugitive slave, or anybody else; no, nor can it be cut with edge of iron.

  • For the priest of the cruel Diana was not accustomed to be sacrificed, nor had he been a fugitive slave.

  • But who has told us anything about the breaking, by a fugitive slave, near Aricia, of a golden bough?

  • The Governor of Pennsylvania lately made a requisition on the Governor of Maryland, for the delivery of a man charged with kidnapping a free black child five years old, born in Pennsylvania of a fugitive slave, and reclaimed with her.

  • Deputy Marshal, since, by a law of the state, the use of the jail is forbidden for the confinement of a fugitive slave.

  • Sherwood's Account of an Attempt to secure a Fugitive Slave in his Charge.

  • On the evening of the 24th of May Anthony Burns was seized there as a fugitive slave, on the claim of a citizen of Virginia, and detained by the marshal in a room of the Court-House.

  • He is only a man who has volunteered, this third time, against advice, to help catch and keep a fugitive slave.

  • Next in order comes a Lecture on the "Fugitive Slave Law.

  • The man was a fugitive slave, and his companion was an Indian woman, converted under the preaching of a missionary among the Indians.

  • London Great Exhibition opens May ist; a fugitive slave rescued at Boston, Sunday, February 16th, another at Syracuse, N.

  • Citizens of New York petition for repeal of Fugitive Slave Law, and for emancipation in the District of Columbia.

  • Why did not Seward honor the requisition of the Governor of Virginia for the return of a fugitive slave?

  • A heckler asked him: "Are not the provisions of the Constitution respecting the return of a fugitive slave a violation of the law of God?

  • It provided for the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and for the passage of a fugitive slave law, such as would satisfy the South.

  • Now, on principle and authority, a claim for the delivery of a fugitive slave is a suit at Common Law, and is embraced naturally and necessarily in this class of judicial proceedings.

  • Fugitive Slave Bill, and then said, "I shudder, when I think of these expressions.

  • If it is wrong for us to return a fugitive slave, it is wrong for us to promise to return one.

  • If it is wrong for me to return a fugitive slave, it is wrong for me voluntarily to aid or support another man in doing the act.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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