A group of powerful anti-slavery advocates issued a warning Tuesday, declaring that “millions of lives are at risk” unless ...

In return, slaveholders in the South are given a stringent Fugitive Slave Law for the recapture of runaways. 1854: The Kansas-Nebraska act divides the Nebraska Territory in two, and soon ...

They are among more than 7,000 direct citations of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide lawyers and judges, said the ...