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Original Title
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Rare Slavery Documents - Doc. No. 50 Report of the Select Committee Appointed Under a Resolution of the House to Enquire Into the Existing Legislation of Congress Upon the Subject of Fugitive Slaves
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Devised Title
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Report of the Select Committee (Inquiry on Fugitive Slave Law)
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Date
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1793
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Contributor
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James N. Eaton
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Description
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This document is a report of the findings of a committee appointed to interrogate existing legislation regarding the recapture of enslaved persons who would escape from slave states to non-slaveholding states. One of the conclusions of this report was to amend the law “to secure to the slave owners in the south the rights guaranteed to them.”
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Location
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Tallahassee
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Leon County
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Florida
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United States of America
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Type
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Textual document
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Medium
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Paper
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Additional Techniques
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Print
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Measurements
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L:20.8cm x W:10.9cm
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Format
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PDF
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HBCU Identifier
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AR_0012_100_01_B02_F08
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HCAC Identifier
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HCAC.FAMU.0153
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Rights
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All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of MEBA is an infringement of the copyright law.
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Contributing Institution
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Florida A&M University
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Source
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James N. Eaton, Sr. Collection
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Language
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English
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About This Record
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