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Collection Reference Number GLC02226
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1852 
Title Commonwealth-extra
Date 26 August 1852
Author Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)  
Document Type Newspapers and Magazines
Content Description Sumner's argument for the appeal of the Fugitive Slave Law was that the slaveholding southern states, and not the United States as a whole, condone the institution of slavery, and thus having a national law in which such an institution is aided and perpetuated in those states who have entered the Union as free (or have since outlawed slavery) is unjust.
Subjects Abolition  Refugees  Runaway Slave  Slavery  Law  Government and Civics  Fugitive Slave Act  
People Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)  
Place written Boston, Massachusetts
Theme Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics; Law
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859