1850 FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Frederick Douglass Elicits a Defense of the Fugitive Slave Act by Boston Conservatives. Spurgeon minor ex library markings

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Solemn Cases of Conviction

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The Negro's Petition

1850 FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Frederick Douglass Elicits a Defense of the Fugitive Slave Act by Boston Conservatives. Spurgeon minor ex library markingsA very finely preserved report of the proceedings of the November 26th, 1850 "Constitutional Meeting" at Faneuil Hall designed to exert pressure on the abolitionists of Boston to accept the bloodhound laws of the same year. The Fugitive Slave Law, signed into law on September 18, 1850 by President Millard Fillmore, had dramatic ramifications across the country, including in Boston. It was part of the broader Compromise of 1850, which provided far more