http://librarian.i2p/get/17673058245798474972/15509743557078436344
This act permitted slave catchers to hunt fugitive slaves in Northern states such as Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts, for all intents and purposes, nationalizing slavery. As early as January 10, 1850, one observer recalled that, at the National Anti-Slavery Society convention, Douglass called for “armed resistance by blacks, declaring they possessed the right to kill to escape slavery.”^{17} Douglass knew firsthand what slaveholder authoritarianism looked like, having lived under the...