#fugitiveslaveact
May 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I woke up with the name Millard Fillmore in my head this morning, WTF? Our 13th President, ascended when Taft pigged out on what would now be called ice cream with cherries. Yep. HIs claim to fame was he signed the #FugitiveSlaveAct. Why is Millard Fillmore in my head? #TarotSky
September 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#ShadrachMinkins, an escaped #slave, was captured in Boston under the #FugitiveSlaveAct on #ThisDayInHistory in 1850. But as #USMarshals walked him into the courthouse, #abolitionists chose #DirectAction, overpowered them, freed Minkins, and spirited him up to Canada and freedom.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Slavery is Bad.
This New Orleans Daily dates back to 1854. We will use it during our pre #CivilWar unit to talk about the #FugitiveSlaveAct.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Slave catching is back. #FugitiveSlaveAct era
One of the plaintiffs is a U.S. citizen working at a car wash that has been raided by Border Patrol multiple times. He gave them his ID but they demanded a passport.

Because he didn’t have one, they detained him and drove him to a different location to check his status.
July 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#OTD in #History 1793

February 12: #FugitiveSlaveAct Signed into Law
Summary: Fugitive Slave Act was a civil statute about returning “fugitives from labor” [i.e., slaves, apprentices, or indentured servants] to their [white] masters.
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericanHistory

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February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
September 18, 1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing owners to reclaim the enslaved who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves.

#FugitiveSlaveAct

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September 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
September 18, 1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing owners to reclaim the enslaved who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves.

#FugitiveSlaveAct

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September 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM
#ICE brings back the #FugitiveSlaveAct
#ICE=FugitiveSlaveAct2025
New Trump slogan...
Make Slavery Legal Again or how about
#Kidnappers'R'US
June 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I'm starting edits now and the edited ep with subtitled should be up over the weekend, if not later tonight. #Slavery #Exploitation #FugitiveSlaveAct
May 15, 2026 at 8:33 PM
The #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 was not well enforced due to widespread opposition to it in 1793.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#AmericanSlavery

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February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Why administration wants to erase specific history in the Smithsonian Museums. Maybe visitors will find out that the country has seen this all of before - especially in Boston. #fugitiveslaveact www.nps.gov/articles/000...
The Fugitive Slave Laws and Boston (U.S. National Park Service)
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August 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just finished recording Chapter 8 of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Rolling into editing and adding images and subtitles. #slavery #FugitiveSlaveAct #politics #northvssouth #exploitation #terrorism
August 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
According to HITORY.com, the #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1793 “authorized local governments to seize and return escapees to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.”
Facts: This was the first Fugitive Slave Act passed after the United States Constitution was ratified.

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February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Fillmore compromise 1850, FugitiveslaveAct why he was from Buffalo up north not the south. Cleveland democrat was a racist two terms like trump not in a row. Buchanan and Pierce was a racist too??? Woodrow wilson hated catholics, he belittled women so did warren harding. We need social programs.
January 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
#OnThisDay in #history, the 1850 #FugitiveSlaveAct was passed. Going beyond the 1793 act, this new law compelled Northern authorities and ordinary citizens to report on fugitives and help slave catchers retrieve them. 📝Joshua J. Mark: https://www.worldhistory.org/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850/ #Slavery
September 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Welcome, good to have you here. I hope you and your staff are mining the history of Massachusetts' resistance to the #FugitiveSlaveAct for ideas to adapt for our current situation: masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/m...
Masked Plainclothes Officers Are Abducting People Off The Streets: What Is To Be Done?
As the video clip above shows, we’re now at the teams-of-masked-plainclothes-officers abducting people off the streets phase of the second Trump administration, which coincides with the viola…
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February 21, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The #FugitiveSlaveAct also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning & trying slaves who escaped. It also added more provisions regarding runaways and imposed even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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September 18, 2026 at 11:16 PM
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 repeating in 2025

Shared from @taylorcassidyj 🎥✨ Full credit to them. Watch more 📺
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VCXdKWciMYU

#BlackHistory365 #OnThisDay #FugitiveSlaveAct #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #UndergroundRailroad #AbolitionistMovement #Freedom
September 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Lewis Hayden & The War Against Slavery by Joel Strangis

"As with Samuel Adams in the 1760s and 70s, at every turn of the freedom struggle during the 1850s and 60s in Boston, one can detect the leadership of Lewis Hayden."
#FugitiveSlaveAct

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Lewis Hayden & The War Against Slavery
Joel Strangis’ terrific 1999 biography, Lewis Hayden & The War Against Slavery, is out of print, so you’re most likely to find it in the YA section of your local library, next to ot…
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August 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
1850: The #FugitiveSlaveAct of 1850 was Signed into Law by President Millard Fillmore
Summary: The new Fugitive Slave Act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they escaped to a free state.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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September 18, 2026 at 11:16 PM
The #FugitiveSlaveAct - The Liberation of Shadrach Minkins

"They hid him from the feds & then secreted him across the river, before accomplices on the #UndergroundRailroad got him across the border to Montreal, where...he lived as a free man."

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The Fugitive Slave Act – The Liberation Of Shadrach Minkins
In February 1851, four months after helping William and Ellen Craft elude bounty hunters and escape first to Maine, then beyond the reach of US law to Nova Scotia, and ultimately England, Black Bos…
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June 24, 2026 at 8:20 PM
America didn’t just allow slavery.
It funded it.
Paid for it.
Protected it.
This is how slave catchers became legal.

Shared from @DejonCampbellTV 🎥✨ Full credit to them. Watch more 📺
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1500419812086913

#BlackHistory365 #OnThisDay #FugitiveSlaveAct
September 18, 2026 at 7:02 PM