History Extra for September 18, 2024
On September 18, 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act as one of the five laws that made up the Compromise of 1850. That so-called compromise was hammered out by Whig leader Henry Clay of Kentucky and Democratic leader Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois to try to calm growing tensions between elite enslavers in the South and northerners who opposed e…
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