THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: A NATION DIVIDED (O16P464HIW) Seminar Week 1: Slavery, Sectionalism & Secession Document A) Advertisement for runaway slaves in various newspapers, 1769-1839 What do these advertisements tell us about the treatment of slaves? Judging from his ad, what kind of slave owner was President Andrew Jackson? Document B) Fugitive Slave Act, US Congress, 18 September 1850 If a defendant could not testify in court, how could a free black prove his/her status? Was there any incentive for the Northern states to comply with the law? And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all marshals and deputy marshals to obey and execute all warrants and precepts issued under the provisions of this act, when to them directed; and should any marshal or deputy marshal refuse to receive such warrant, or other process, when tendered, or to use all proper means diligently to execute the same, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of one thousand dollars, to the use of such claimant, on the motion of such
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: A NATION DIVIDED (O16P464HIW) Seminar Week 1: Slavery, Sectionalism & Secession Document A) Advertisement for runaway slaves in various newspapers, 1769-1839 What do these advertisements tell us about the treatment of slaves? Judging from his ad, what kind of slave owner was President Andrew Jackson? Document B) Fugitive Slave Act, US Congress, 18 September 1850 If a defendant could not testify in court, how could a free black prove his/her status? Was there any incentive for the Northern states to comply with the law? And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all marshals and deputy marshals to obey and execute all warrants and precepts issued under the provisions of this act, when to them directed; and should any marshal or deputy marshal refuse to receive such warrant, or other process, when tendered, or to use all proper means diligently to execute the same, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of one thousand dollars, to the use of such claimant, on the motion of such
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