Fugitive Slave Act < Compromise of 1850

The Fugitive Slave Act 1850
Text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/fugitive.htm
Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850
Explanation of the Fugitive Slave Act, two reward posters for escaped slaves, and an abolitionist poster warning African Americans about the danger of recapture.
education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/SlaveLaw.htm
Eric Foner on the Fugitive Slave Act
Historian Eric Foner discusses the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law in the North.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3094.html