Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)McDougall, Marion Gleason
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Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)
McDougall, Marion Gleason
Fugitive slaves -- United States; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
=Anno Regni Duodecimo Georgii Regis. [1726?]= An Act for the better
regulating of Negroes in this Province. "And be it further enacted by
the Authority aforesaid, that no Person or Persons whatsoever shall
Employ, or knowingly harbour, conceal, or entertain other Peoples Slaves
at their Houses, Out-houses, or Plantations, without the Master or
Owner's consent; excepting in Distress of weather or other Extraordinary
Occasion, under the Penalty of Thirty Shillings for every twenty-four
Hours he or they shall entertain or harbour him or them as
aforesaid."--¤_Province Laws of Pennsylvania, 325._
APPENDIX B.
_NATIONAL ACTS AND PROPOSITIONS RELATIVE TO FUGITIVE SLAVES. 1778-1854._
This Appendix contains all the important bills, acts, and treaties from
the foundation of the Constitution to 1860. Many minor propositions may
be found through the foot-notes to the text of Chapter II. The figures in
brackets [] refer back to the text of the monograph.
[Sidenote: Treaties and First Act.]
=1. Fugitive clause in treaty with the Delawares.=
=1778, Aug. 7.= Art. IV. "And it is further agreed between the parties
aforesaid, that neither shall entertain or give countenance to the
enemies of the other, or protect in their respective States, criminal
fugitives, servants, or slaves, but the same to apprehend, and secure
and deliver to the State or States to which such enemies, criminals,
servants, or slaves respectively belong."--_Statutes at Large, VII. 14._
=2. Fugitive clause in the treaty of peace. [§§ 13, 22.]=
=1782-83. 1782, Nov. 13.= Provisional articles. =1783, Sept. 3.=
Definitive treaty. "His Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient
speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes
or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies,
garrisons, and fleets from the said United States."--_Treaties and
Conventions, ed. of 1889, pp. 372, 378._
=3. Fugitive clauses in Indian treaties. [§ 13.]=
=1784-86. 1784, Oct. 22.= Treaty with the Six Nations, Art. I.
=1785, Jan. 21.= Treaty with the Wyandots, etc. Art. I. "All the
prisoners white and black" taken by the Indians "shall be delivered up"
or "restored."--_Statutes at Large, VII. 15, 16._
=4. Fugitive clause in King's ordinance. [§ 14.]=
=1785, April 6.= Report of the Committee on Government of the Western
Territory. "Provided that always, upon the escape of any person into any
of the States described in the resolve of Congress of the twenty-third
day of April, 1784, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in
any one of the thirteen original States, such fugitive might be lawfully
reclaimed and carried back to the person claiming his labor or service,
this resolve notwithstanding."--_Papers of Old Congress_, XXI. 331,
cited in _Bancroft, History of the United States (last Revision), VI.
133._
=5. Fugitive clauses in Indian treaties. [§ 13.]=
=1785, Nov. 28.= Treaty with the Cherokees, Art. I.
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