Talk:Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

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Action needed
This article as it reads today, 7 March 2011, needs cleaning up, but I do not have the knowledge to do so. The Lawless One (talk) 20:14, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

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I strongly recommend that the article of "fugitive slave laws" be kept separate from articles about individual laws. Persons who are interested in the overall topic of fugitive slave laws may benefit from a short read about the general subject matter, but the individual acts of Congress (or of other legislative bodies outside the US) are a topic of specific interest that may interest scholars who want to know about particular laws. As a Wiki consumer, I'd hate to have to slog thru a long essay about Dredd Scott in the 1850s when what I really want to learn about is the politics in the Washington administration that brought the act of 1793 into being. Of course in classic Wiki fashion, the separate articles should all link to each other. Bucky Rea (unregistered Wiki user) 9pm CST, 10 August 2005


 * I agree wholeheartedly. Any other website would simply combine the two to create a generalized quagmire of information.  Wiki's concise organization is one of its major advantages that it holds over other reference websites.  Hoover (unregistered Wiki user)5:45pm PT, October 4, 2005

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Regarding, " It made it a federal duty to assist an escaping slave, and established the legal mechanism by which escaped slaves could be seized (even in "free" states), ..." (emphasis added)

I assume the word you intended there is "crime" rather than "duty", right?

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This article - along w/ many others on slavery - has been attacked & changed. On 25 February 2010 an anonymous user (ip address only), deleted some words & changed others to give the impression that few free blacks were kidnapped and sold south into slavery.

"There were however a few instances which people who were legally free and had never been slaves were captured and brought south to be sold into slavery."

The anonymous writer changd 'numerous' to 'a few'. This statement is not supported by the historical evidence. Tens of thousands of blacks were kidnapped over the years & forced into slavery.

Anonymous also changed information relating to Mintus Northup, Solomon Northup's father who later mover to NY state. There is ample evidence of this, including public records; Minthus Northup is is interred there.

"North Shoreman" is an editor on Wikipedia who noticed this act of vandalism, and his/her quick efforts help maintain wikipedia's standards & keep racist/apolegitics off the site. This is supposed to be a scholarly article; many worked on it; anonymous writers shoud not inject their historically innacurate ideology. Ebanony (talk) 05:17, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

The Statue
I've added the html to make sure the citations display the name of the books, and have a hyperlink. This article needs a little more work, though. Ebanony (talk) 10:31, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

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