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Collection Reference Number GLC08058.02
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1801 
Title A Bill, to amend the act, entitled, "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters"
Date 25 February 1801
Document Type Broadside
Content Description Same bill as GLC08058.01, with several amendments. Settles the penalty for knowingly harboring escaped slaves at $500 and requires those employing black labor to see a manumission paper. Says can avoid the penalty if the employer advertises a general description of the slave and his time and place of employment for at least three weeks. Requires jailers to advertise for at least six weeks that a slave has been jailed. Says whoever has the slave jailed will have to put up security for any bills and fees the jailing will incur.
Subjects Congress  Government and Civics  Law  Runaway Slave  Slavery  African American History  Petition  Manumission  Labor  Prisoner  
Theme Government & Politics; Law; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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