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Front Page  Groups & Collections A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793, and September 18, 1850
Lysander Spooner, A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793, and September 18, 1850 [1850]Edition used:A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793, and September 18, 1850 (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1850).
 | About this title:Since, in Spooner’s view, slavery was both unjust and unconstitutional, men and women held in slavery had the right to flee, and other people had the right and the duty to help the runaway slaves escape to freedom. This meant violating the Fugitive Slave Acts and breaking the law, but these acts would be in the freedom-loving spirit of the Constitution.
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- Poverty, Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure.—part I. By Lysander Spooner.
- Recommendations.
- Act of Congress of 1793.: An Act Respecting Fugitives From Justice, and Persons Escaping From the Service of Their Masters.
- Act of Congress of 1850.: An Act to Amend, and Supplementary to the Act, Entitled “an Act Respecting Fugitives From Justice, and Persons Escaping From the Service of Their Masters,” Approved February 12, 1793.
- A Defence For Fugitive Slaves.
- Chapter I.: Unconstitutionality of the Acts of Congress of 1793 and 1850.
- Chapter II.: The Right of Resistance, and the Right to Have the Legality of That Resistance Judged of By a Jury.
- Chapter III.: Liability of United States Officers to Be Punished, Under the State Laws, For Executing the Acts of 1793 and 1850.
- Appendix A.: Neither the Constitution, Nor Either of the Acts of Congress of 1793 Or 1850, Requires the Surrender of Fugitive Slaves.
- Appendix B.: Authorities For the Right of the Jury to Judge of the Law In Criminal Cases.
- Appendix C.: Mansfield’s Argument Against the Right of the Jury to Judge of the Law In Criminal Cases.
- Appendix D.: Effect of Trial By Jury, In Nullifying Other Legislation Than the Fugitive Slave Laws.
- Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Parts First and Second.
- Recommendations.
- Also For Sale As Above.
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