Prigg v Pennsylvania (1842)
The first state law to make it illegal to remove a person from the state for the purpose of enslaving them. The first state challenge to...
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Gordon v Farrar (1847)
The Michigan Supreme Court denied Gordon, who was one-fourth African, the right to vote by overturning a circuit court decision that...
Jones v Van Zandt (1847)
This was a US Supreme Court case that decided the constitutionality of slavery. Van Zandt, who had previously been a slaveholder, became...
Giltner v Gorham (1848)
This case involves a black family whose patriarch was named Adam Crosswhite, who escaped from a holder of persons who had used them as...
Michigan Proposal 1 to grant civil rights to blacks -failed to pass (1850)
This amendment failed to pass on the ballot till after the end of the Civil War. Even though most Michigan citizens felt slavery should...
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This act was a component of the Compromise of 1850 which was a complicated, jumbled mess of US western expansion and claims to land,...
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