Tag: fugitive slave act
Historian Compares Resistance to ICE Raids with Resistance to Fugitive Slave Act
This article originally appeared on July, 2019. Kate Masur, associate professor of history at Northwestern University, is one of our country’s leading historians of the…
New Short Film on the Lives of Enslaved Couple’s Gender Change to Flee to Freedom
Ellen and William Craft ran away from slavery in plain sight. Ellen, who was light skinned, disguised herself as a sickly white man. Her husband…
Book Review: The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco published by…