pre-Civil War laws passed by Northern state governments to counteract the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Acts and to protect escaped slaves and free blacks settled in the North, by giving them the right to a jury trial.
pre-Civil War laws passed by Northern state governments to counteract the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Acts and to protect escaped slaves and free blacks settled in the North, by giving them the right to a jury trial.
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Personal liberty laws:
- Laws passed by north states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves.
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Personal liberty laws:
- Laws passed by north states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves.
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Some northern states used personal liberty laws to nullify the
figitive slave Act, written to help the south.