Report of the Select Committee (Inquiry on Fugitive Slave Law)
- Identifier
- HCAC.FAMU.0153
- Title
- Report of the Select Committee (Inquiry on Fugitive Slave Law)
- Alternative Title
- Rare Slavery Documents - Doc. No. 50 Report of the Select Committee Appointed Under a Resolution of the House to Enquire Into the Existing Legislation of Congress Upon the Subject of Fugitive Slaves
- Creator
- Mr. Faulkner | Members of the Select Committee | The General Assembly of Virginia
- Date Created
- 1793
- Description
- This document is a report of the findings of a committee appointed to interrogate existing legislation regarding the recapture of enslaved persons who would escape from slave states to non-slaveholding states. One of the conclusions of this report was to amend the law “to secure to the slave owners in the south the rights guaranteed to them.”
- Access Rights
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- Publisher
- James N. Eaton
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