Then, as now, out-of-state agents snatched people off the street. Then, as now, Illinoisans banded together to try to stop them.

A retired educator compares unchecked ICE power to bounty hunters under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, warns of threats to ...

Case in point: the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a deeply unpopular law that effectively radicalized large swaths of the American electorate. It led to widespread civil disobedience, the destruction of ...

OP-ED. Professor emerita Marie-Jeanne Rossignol draws a parallel between anti-ICE activists, who whistle to alert immigrant communities of the arrival of agents, and the abolitionists who once posted ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mirrors modern immigration policies, deepening divides and sparking protests in sanctuary cities ...

The closing days of June, 150 years ago, also brought an end to conflicting regulations and management of same with respect to the status of slaves, brought about in a manner that clearly indicated ...

Democratic Oregon Rep. Janelle Bynum compared a Republican-led immigration bill to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Thursday while speaking in opposition to the legislation on the House floor. House ...

(RNS) — In 1850, many Christian preachers publicly supported the Fugitive Slave Act against widespread protests. What’s different today?

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it a crime for a citizen to harbor a runaway slave or to offer any assistance to slaves who had run away from their masters. The act was part of the compromise of ...

User-Created Clip September 10, 2021 2019-01-12T18:06:53-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/437/20190112182410003_hd.jpgAndrew Delbanco, author of The War Before ...

Speaker A: Jamel, do you believe the hype about history repeating itself? Speaker B: I believe the aphorism from Mark Twain. I believe that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. Speaker A: ...