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Fun facts about dead Presidents: President George Washington, endlessly celebrated by American nationalists and presidential historians* as a paradigm of restrained power and republican virtue, signed and enforced the first Fugitive Slave Act in the history of the USA. In fact he used it personally, to attempt to recapture “his” own slaves. http://ift.tt/M9TMKT #APAB

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 Note: Superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment)[1] guaranteed the right of a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave. The Act’s t…

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