Newspaper results for "fugitive slave"

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62918 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (8380 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Daily National Intelligencer — 1817-11-01, page 3

    … feit and pay 300 dollars, and be banished from the country. 2d. Resolved, That any fugitive slave or slaves taken up shall be kept in jail, until claimed by his, her or their owners …

  2. Daily National Intelligencer — 1818-04-16, page 3

    … it lie on the taole, to give further time tor consideration a! the amendments. Fugitive Slave i bis biifwhich lies on the table, on account,of certain a metidments, made to …

  3. Daily National Intelligencer — 1818-06-15, page 2

    … proofs have been satis factorily made before him, the person therein described is a fugitive slave, and belongs to the person who holds him is custody, that another Judge has a right …

    … constitution of the United States has guaranteed to the master a right to pursue his fugitive slave, and has en joined to the state to which he shall fly, o de liver him up. It has …

  4. Daily National Intelligencer — 1819-11-23, page 2

    … Epistle to Philemon is nothing more than an intercession in behalf of Onesimus,a fugitive slave,who had pro bably run away from his master, to listen to the eloquence of the Apostle …

  5. Daily National Intelligencer — 1821-01-01, page 2

    … not aliens or slaves, (and there could be none of the latter, though perhaps a fugitive slave might have been considered as an alien prior to the federal stipulations on that …

  6. Daily National Intelligencer — 1822-07-06, page 2

    … as little evil in his vocation as any member of the com munity. Low vs. lliuc.— Fugitive Slave. CHARGE TO THE JURY—(By Judge Peters.) I believe there is not an individual among …

    … actually, or by circumstances brought home to the party charged,of his or her being a fugitive slave, must be given, when reasonably required as all offen ces must be committed knowingly …

  7. Daily National Intelligencer — 1823-10-28, page 2

    … Camillus Griffith, for an assault and battery oil John Randolph, whom he claimed as a fugitive slave from Virginia. The original trial was had before the Supreme Court in this town …

  8. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-09-11, page 3

    … nothing more than an abortive attempt of comparatively a few negroes to rescue a fugitive slave, who had been delivered into the custody of his master by Judge Levy, under the …

  9. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-01-15, page 3

    … Maryland, against Samuel Mason,Jr. of this city, for an alleged har boring of a fugitive slave, was terminated on the morning of the 7th instant, by a verdict in favor of the …

  10. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-03-07, page 2

    … understand that George Alberti, one of the coun ty constables, in an attempt to arrest a fugitive slave near Haddonfield, (N. J.) was shot on Tuesday last.— It appears that he had gone …

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