The Emancipation proclamation act 1850 and the Fugitive slave act

Introduction

In the 1820s, an anti-slavery movement was small but extremely active, organized in the North and with it a support network for runaway slaves, the Underground Railroad. Slavery is one of the main issues of political debate in the country. The Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, stopping Scott v. Sandford the Supreme Court or the events of Bleeding Kansas are all steps in the increasing polarization around this issue, the source of the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860. Following this conflict, the thirteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution ends slavery by extending to the entire U.S. territory the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, without addressing the issue of the integration of African Americans in the national community. The reconstruction that follows war is thus seen to constitute a legal system of racial segregation in the South.

Discussion

The Emancipation Proclamation (Emancipation Proclamation) means two decrees (executive orders) of the United States President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. The first, dated 22 September 1862, declared free all slaves residing in the territory of the Confederation southerner who is not under control of the Union from the 1st January 1863. The second, dated January 1, 1863, refers explicitly to the states concerned.

The Emancipation Proclamation was attacked in this day for not freeing the slaves of the territories on which the Union had no real power. However it was a first step towards the abolition of slavery which was extended to the end of the war to all States United States. Lincoln has claimed its position as “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy "(Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States) to justify its use of the decree at the expense of an Act of Congress.

Fugitive Slave Act is the name given to two statutes of Congress of the United States created, respectively, on 12 February 1793 and 18 September 1850 (under the Compromise of 1850 between the States and agrarian slavery Southerners and Northerners States industrial and abolitionist) and acting on how to capture slaves escaped and they returned to their owner.

Although the problem of runaway slaves is mentioned in the Constitution of 1787 (specifically in Section 2 of Article IV), the issue of cooperation between States in their capture is not explicitly mentioned, although sub- predicate. In reality, the various moral convictions that makes cooperation very difficult, prompting Congress to legislate on this point. In the early days of the 1840s, there still exist many sources of conflict between states of the South and North regarding slavery. Major sticking points for the chronic lack of assistance offered by the Yankees to help, slave owners and their agents to find the escaped slaves.

In 1842, the Supreme Court of the United States makes a decision in the case known Prigge v. Pennsylvania indicating that a State is not required to provide assistance in finding and capturing runaway slaves. Meanwhile, some northern states pass ...