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 federal powers and the first Supreme Court Case that dealt with the conflict between Federal Fugitive Slave Laws and states’ personal liberty laws, ruling the federal Fugitive Slave law took precedence over the state law.
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See AllSlave owners continued to push for increased property rights protections in the case of fugitive slaves. Two unsuccessful attempts were made one in 1801 another in 1817 during a climate of backlash to
This law was a thinly veiled attempt to control the civil liberties of blacks entering and residing in Michigan. Infrequently or marginally enforced, it required its targets to register with their cou
Before becoming a state, Michigan a Territory under governance of the Northwest Ordinance, had outlawed slavery but assured no civil rights for blacks. Upon becoming a state, Michigan inherited Ohio’s
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