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Date of this Version
2022
Document Type
Presentation
Citation
AD Banse, "Legal Strategies Used by Black Men During the Antebellum Period" [Research Poster]
Digital Legal Research Lab REU Site, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2022
Abstract
AD Banse, "Legal Strategies Used by Black Men During the Antebellum Period" [Research Poster]
Digital Legal Research Lab REU Site, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2022
The Missouri Statute of 1807 existed as the primary act that somewhat ensured the freedom of those enslaved and pursuing their freedom. The act refuted laws such as the Futgitive Slave Clause of 1793 and 1850, and the Missouri Compromise, which were evidence that slaveholders held decisive political influence and could cast the Constitution in proslave terms (Baker 2012). These clauses essentially gave enslavers the right to seize enslaved people who escaped to free states deepening the divide amongst both free and slave states who enforced different laws. It furthered controversial debates amongst law makers, politicians, enslavors, and abolitionists althother.
I believe that there are countless untold stories that need to be brought forth to better our understanding of the world that we live in, which is imperative if we choose to live in a society that stresses the importance of democracy and freedom.
Advisor: Katrina Jagodinsky
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