Statistics on the FSA

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Statistics on the FSA

• 1st 15 months of Fugitive Slave Act, 84 fugitives
  were returned to slavery5 were released
• For the entire decade of the 1850s the ratios was
  332 to 11

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North Refuses to Obey FSA

• Feb. 1851 slave Shadrach was saved by crowd of
  blackshe escaped to Canada
• April 1851Thomas Sims
• Arrested Boston
• President Fillmore sent 250 soldiers to help 300
  armed deputies enforce the law

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CAPTURE OF ANTHONY BURNS

• May 24,1854 Burns was arrested. Boston
  abolitionists rallied to aid
• Two separate groups met at the same time to
  discuss Burn's recapture a large group,
  consisting mainly of white abolitionists, met at
  Fanueil Hall
• a smaller group, mostly blacks, met in the
  basement of the Tremont Temple.

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• Pres. Pierce Incur any expense to enforce the
  law
• 200 marines and soldiers led Burns back to bondage

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Southern Justification of Slavery

• Bible
• Phrenology
• Fitzhugh

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Phrenology
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George Fitzhugh

• Considered first sociologist
• Beliefs
• He the Negro is but a grown up child
• The negro is improvident will not lay up in
  summer for the wants of winter will not
  accumulate in youth for the exigencies of age
• The negro slaves of the South are the happiest,
  and, in some sense, the freest people in the
  world.

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• The master labors for the slave, they exchange
  industrial value. But the capitalist, living on
  his income, gives nothing to his subjects. He
  lives by mere exploitations.

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John Brown and Pottawatomie Creek
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