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Meno (/ ˈ m iː n oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Μένων, Ménōn) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 385 BC., but set at an earlier date around 402 BC. [1] Meno begins the dialogue by asking Socrates whether virtue (in Ancient Greek : ἀρετή , aretē ) can be taught, acquired by practice, or comes by nature . [ 2 ]
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His mother was Delilah Horniblow, a slave of the Horniblow family who owned a local tavern. [ b ] The father of John and his sister Harriet (born 1813) was Elijah Knox. [ 6 ] Elijah Knox, although enslaved, was in some ways privileged because he was an expert carpenter.
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, [1] as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power ...
Shadrach Minkins (c. 1814 – December 13, 1875) was an African-American fugitive slave from Virginia who escaped in 1850 and reached Boston. He also used the pseudonyms Frederick Wilkins and Frederick Jenkins. [1] He is known for being freed from a courtroom in Boston after being captured by United States marshals under the Fugitive Slave Act ...
Just before the Civil War a slave belonging to the Jackson family in Harrison County escaped to Ohio by stealing a horse, but was returned under the act and sold lower south. [67] One of the last slaves ever returned under the act was Sara Lucy Bagby , who had also escaped to Ohio and was restored to her owner in Wheeling on January 24, 1861 ...
State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave was an 1855 murder trial held in the Circuit Court of Callaway County, Missouri, in which an enslaved woman named Celia was tried for the first-degree murder of her owner, Robert Newsom. Celia was convicted by a jury of twelve white men [1] and sentenced to death.
Pennington happened to be in Scotland when the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed, which increased the risk to him as a fugitive from the South. It required even law enforcement and officials in such free states as New York to cooperate in the capture and prosecution of fugitive slaves, and was biased in favor of slave catchers and masters.