Senator Salmon chase, a leading opponent of the act said, "[If the bill is passed into law, it will show] all thinking people that compromises with slavery will endure only as long as they serve the interests of slavery.... The North helped runaway slaves, because they thought slavery should end, but the South thought they were losing valuable property. After a stronger fugitive slave law was imposed, the North was unhappy because they had to help catch the slaves, and the South was still unsatisfied with losing property. ...

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By this time, the northerners were quite opposed to the idea of people being considered property, and those people (property) being counted as part of the population. ... After months of discussion Congress passed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. ... So now Congress passed the Compromise Measures of 1850 during August of 1850. ... But many free states in the Union passed personal liberty laws in an effort to help the slaves escape. ... Again another law was passed in 1854. ...

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In this case blacks could not own property they were someone's property. Blacks could not accumulate assets that could be passed on from generation to generation as years went by. ... Reparations often include the payments of money or the return of property to individuals or groups. ...

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In 1828 Northern businessmen helped get the "Tariff Act" passed. ... The Constitution of the United States guaranteed the right to own property and protected against seizure of property. A slave was property. ...

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They were treated like a piece of property and not human beings. ... In 1866 Congress passed two bills over President Johnson's veto. ... Congress also passed the Civil Rights Bill, which gave full citizenship to blacks, along with the rights enjoyed by other Americans, including the right to equal treatment in theaters, inns, and other public places. ... If a gentleman shall say the rich man has property and the poor man has not then the question is only changed for another what is his right to property." (The Rights of a Man to Property, Making Connections, p.188) All individuals ar...

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Secretary of state John Forsyth whom believed that they were the property of Spain and should be returned to the Spain by order of the queen. 4. ... After Jesus passed away they saw that his spirit went to heaven and that is what they believed in their own fate. 5. ... I believe that he was saying this phrase in a sarcastic way because he feels with the current injustices towards slavery practices it contradicts these traditions that are passed in the declaration of independence....

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In fact, the Confiscation Act that was passed by Congress in 1862 authorized the seizure of the property of all persons in rebellion. ... President Lincoln, recognizing the dependence of the south for the economy passed the Morill Land Grant Act. ...

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The bill was passed section by section until it became law. ... Slave owners didn't see the slaves as people he saw him as property. ... The supreme court also decided that slaves were property, and the bill of rights protected property therefore congress couldn't outlaw slavery in any of the territories. ... (U.S.Constitution, p.144) The decision angered many northerners they felt that slaves were more than property and felt that this ruling was unfair. ...

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Emerson became suddenly ill and later passed away leaving Scott and his family under the control of Emerson's wife, Irene. ... At this time in history, slaves were considered valuable property, and as Mrs. ...

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The government could pass laws that only both sides agreed on which meant that slavery was not an issue in Congress before the 19th Century. In 1787 the Northwest Ordinance was passed. ... This would create an advantage in the Senate because the North would have 4 more Senators to pass legislation. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ... Property from the Oregon territory was now considered all northern land. ...

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From as early as 1629 in Jamestown, Virginia, codes or laws were being passed that segregated, humiliated and oppressed the black slave in the new world. ... This law was in effect the first law in the new world that consigned slaves as property. ... In 1705, Virginia passed another set of laws that declared that all servants who were not Christians in their native lands would be slaves for life. ... As a reaction to the revolt, apprehensive whites in New York quickly passed new stricter and more oppressive laws. ... New laws were again passed taking all blacks freedoms away. ...

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They were placed in the slave market when they arrived in America, and at auction white property was often sold along with the slaves (Hughes 14-16). ... Newly freed slaves and property holding African Americans provided an important source of manpower for the Union Army. ... "Contrabands were escaped slaves, so called because of the ingenious theory that, whose owners being at war with the United States, their property somehow became "contraband of war" (Miller 104). ... Slavery was finally abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed by the House of Representatives on J...

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Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. Autobiographies were extremely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, because people were looking for models. Benjamin Franklin can be consider...

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They were kidnapped and imported from Africa to be bought and sold as property for the sole purpose of working. ... Slaves passed the travel instructions from plantation to plantation by singing songs. ...

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Johnson had established not only a dominant plantation, but had created enough revenue to keep his family secure for many generations after he had passed away. ... "Anthony realized that he and the local justices shared certain basic beliefs about the sanctity of property before the law. ...

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Their efforts worked Congress enacted the Lever Act of 1917 to outlaw the use of grain in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages, and many state and local governments passed laws prohibiting the distribution and consumption of alcohol. ... They worked to raise money for the movement, yet their fathers and husbands controlled their money and property. ... Congress passed a law that ended the Atlantic slave trade. ...

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Along their trip down the river they run into many problems like: a shipwreck with thieves onboard, a family battle that gets them almost shot, two conmen who will do anything to get money, and they go too far down the Mississippi River and pass Cairo. ... Back in those days a slave would have been considered property of whoever the slave owner was. Huck needed to stop thinking with society's morals and go with his own by realizing that a person could not be property of someone else. ...

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Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures. ... The domination of white males allowed them to make their own decisions regarding their property. ...

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It was not until the 1660's that Maryland and Virginia passed laws making Africans slaves for life. ... The husband was not the head of the family, the holder of property, the provider, or the protector. ...

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Finally, in 1841, his motion to repeal the 21st "gag" rule of the House of Representatives was passed by a vote of 108-80. ... It meant that if the men had been brought from Africa before the 1820 treaty banning the importation of slaves, they would have been the property of Ruiz and Montes. ...

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a few European nations ruled the Americas. They grew sugar, tobacco, coffee, ginger, cotton and indigo, which were all craved by the Europeans. Imprisoned in these exotic product plantations were about two and a half million black slaves. Fred D"Aguiar's b...

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The Fugitive Slave Law passed in 1850 stating any person who makes attempt to harbor or conceal any fugitive from service or labor, escaping from one state into another, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after knowledge that he was such as fugitive, would be subjected to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars. ... She enjoyed a relatively normal, happy family life up until she was six years old when her mother passed, and her father followed soon after in 1826. ... Harriet Ann Jacobs passed away after a long life at the age of 84 on March 7, 1897, and is put to rest next to her brother i...

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People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ... It was considered right to take anything that belonged to white folk but it was wrong to steal the property of other slaves. ...

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Covey's property would lead to a lot of suffering and the second turning point in Douglass" life. ... I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact. ...

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The Native Americans and Africans Slaves are two prominent groups seen in the Colonial Era with great influence, difficult challenges, and cultures that shaped the colonies into how we see them today. Both, the African Americans and Native Americans were challenged by the hardships of the whites thr...

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