Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 - Milestone Documents

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

( 1793 ) Commentary by H. Robert Baker, Georgia State University

Cover, Robert M. Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975.
Delbanco, Andrew. The War before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. New York: Penguin, 2018.
Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. 2nd ed. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
Morris, Thomas D. Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780–1861. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

“A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875.” Library of Congress “American Memory” Web site. memory.loc.gov/ammem/lawhome.html.
“Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection.” Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/collection.html.
“Slaves and the Courts, 1740–1860.” Library of Congress “American Memory” Web site. http://memory.loc.gov/sthome.html.

Roger Sherman of Connecticut, who served on the Senate committee that drafted the Fugitive Slave Act (Library of Congress)

View Full Size

Further Reading