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One of the most notable runaway slaves of American history and conductors of the Underground Railroad is Harriet Tubman. Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, around 1822, Tubman as a young adult, escaped from her enslaver's plantation in 1849. Between 1850 and 1860, she returned to the South numerous times to lead parties of other ...
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012 "Fugitive Slave Law" (2008) Nevins, Allan (1947). Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847–1852. Vol. 1. Collier Books. ISBN 978-0020354413.
With the end of slavery in the state, Indiana became a border state with the southern slave states. Hoosiers like Levi Coffin came to play an important role in the Underground Railroad that helped many slaves escape from the South. Indiana remained anti-slavery and in the American Civil War remained with the Union and contributed men to the war.
He is being held in the Benton County jail on $250,000 bail on charges of second-degree kidnapping and harboring a runaway. While a judge ordered him not to contact the teen, Deputy Prosecutor ...
Ruben Dario Visquerra Aguilar was first arrested and charged in October with harboring a runaway. In Idaho, he faces charges of first-degree kidnapping and human sex trafficking of a child.
Indiana's state constitution prohibited slavery, but many Indiana residents supported legislation that prevented runaway slaves from entering the state. [18] In 1851, when the Constitution of Indiana was revised, delegates to the constitutional convention considered granting voting rights to Indiana's free people of color.
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The Fugitive Slave Clause states that fugitive slaves "shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due", which abridged state rights because apprehending runaway slaves was a form of retrieving private property. [1]