In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts, took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

Under the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, U.S. Marshals were mandated to recover slaves who escaped and return them to enslavement. When the U.S. Constitution was signed into law in 1787, it ...

The complications incidental to a Fugitive Slave law are just now most strangely ... and the question was whether the act committed by ANDERSON could be brought under such definitions.

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum announces its fifth year of Black History Matters with the 2025 theme of ...

Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he planned to invoke the Alien Enemies Act as part of his pledge to deport ...