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The declaration placed heavy emphasis on the importance of the Fugitive Slave Clause to South Carolina and accused Northern states of flagrantly violating it, going as far as naming specific states. Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution of the Confederate States mentioned slavery by name and specified African Americans as the subject.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3), which was later superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment, and to also give effect to the Extradition Clause (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 2). [1]
According to a book review in The New York Times in January 2015: . The Northwest Ordinance of July 1787 held that slaves "may be lawfully reclaimed" from free states and territories, and soon after, a fugitive slave clause — Article IV, Section 2 — was woven into the Constitution at the insistence of the Southern delegates, leading South Carolina's Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to boast ...
The Fugitive Slave Clause requires the return of fugitive slaves; this clause has not been repealed, but it was rendered moot by the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished involuntary servitude, except in the prison system. The Admissions Clause grants Congress the authority to admit new states but forbids the creation of new states from parts ...
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, for example, required that Southern slaves who escaped to the North, where slavery was outlawed, be returned upon capture. ... Given that the extradition clause is ...
The United States Constitution, ratified in 1788, never uses the words "slave" or "slavery" but recognized its existence in the so-called fugitive slave clause (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3), [4] the three-fifths clause, [5] and the prohibition on prohibiting the importation of "such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think ...
Swartzentruber, a minister of Lexington’s South Elkhorn Christian Church, learned of the exception clause after his church youth group took a trip to Alabama in 2022 to visit several slavery and ...
Export Clause: I: 10: 2 Extradition Clause: IV: 2: 2 Faithful Execution Clause: II: 3: 5 Foreign Commerce Clause [citation needed] I: 8: 3 Fugitive Slave Clause: IV: 2: 3 Full Faith and Credit Clause: IV: 1: General Welfare Clause: I: 8: 1 Guarantee Clause: IV: 4: Impeachment Clause [citation needed] II: 4: Impeachment Clause (Power to Impeach ...