A year before the first law that would begin phasing out slavery in the US was passed, another law went into place. This law required any state where an enslaved person had fled to hand over that person to the state where the person's "master" resided. While many non-slave states enacted what are called "personal liberty laws" that required slave owners to produce proof before any actions were taken. The fugitive slave acts, which only started with this law and were followed by several others of increasing degrees of harshness. These laws were only repealed in 1865 with the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which abolished all slavery in the United States.
Sources:
- Wikipedia: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- History: Congress Enacts First Fugitive Slave Law
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Congress Enacts First Fugitive Slave Law
Once again, we see money is more important here than human lives. This shouldn't be okay. Not anywhere. And yet we see time and time again, it's people who have to push back to remind the government that people are what make the country, not money. And it's time to do it again, guys.
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