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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 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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Michigan Constitution (1835)

Before becoming a state, Michigan a Territory under governance of the Northwest Ordinance, had outlawed slavery but assured no civil...

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