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Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. “She drew around herself a certain reserve,” Rosetta

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Fellow Citizens: I’m worried. Very worried. But don’t