- Text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/fugitive.htm
- 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
- Historian Eric Foner discusses the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law in the North.www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3094.html