Slave 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 the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1793. Most states passed anti-kidnapping laws that criminalized the practice. The 1817 attempt to strengthen their positions would have allowed them arrest warrants and certificates of removal from state judges. This would have put northern judges and other officials in the position of agency in behalf of southern states.
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See AllThis 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
A segregated district without funding for teacher or operations or maintenance, till 1841. Founded by Detroit’s Second Baptist Church in 1836, this first school for black children, became a part of De
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