As a direct result of stricter Fugitive Slaves laws being enacted by the US Congress, Michigan passed act 162 which allowed fugitives the right to an appeal in a county circuit court.
This case involves a black family whose patriarch was named Adam Crosswhite, who escaped from a holder of persons who had used them as...
This amendment failed to pass on the ballot till after the end of the Civil War. Even though most Michigan citizens felt slavery should...
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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