Report of the Select Committee (Inquiry on Fugitive Slave Law)

Original Title

Rare Slavery Documents - Doc. No. 50 Report of the Select Committee Appointed Under a Resolution of the House to Enquire Into the Existing Legislation of Congress Upon the Subject of Fugitive Slaves

Devised Title

Report of the Select Committee (Inquiry on Fugitive Slave Law)

Date

1793

Creator

Mr. Faulkner See all items with this value

Members of the Select Committee See all items with this value

The General Assembly of Virginia See all items with this value

Contributor

James N. Eaton

Description

This document is a report of the findings of a committee appointed to interrogate existing legislation regarding the recapture of enslaved persons who would escape from slave states to non-slaveholding states. One of the conclusions of this report was to amend the law “to secure to the slave owners in the south the rights guaranteed to them.”

Primary Subject

1700-1799 See all items with this value

Law See all items with this value

Slavery See all items with this value

Justice See all items with this value

Location

Tallahassee

Leon County

Florida

United States of America

Type

Textual document

Medium

Paper

Additional Techniques

Print

Measurements

L:20.8cm x W:10.9cm

Format

PDF

HBCU Identifier

AR_0012_100_01_B02_F08

HCAC Identifier

HCAC.FAMU.0153

Rights

All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of MEBA is an infringement of the copyright law.

Contributing Institution

Florida A&M University

Source

James N. Eaton, Sr. Collection

Collection

Rare Slave Documents See all items with this value

Language

English