[Magdalen] 5 Easter sermon, was Baptism refused...

[Eleanor Braun]

David:  the US Constitution, in Article IV, Section 2 provided:  "No person
held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping
into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be
discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim
of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
<https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii>

That section was superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing
slavery.  My understanding is that lots of the northern states were not
following that provision, which, of course, pissed off the slave states.

Eleanor



On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 5/9/2015 8:47:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> eleanor.braun at gmail.com writes:
>
> the  history of slavery in the North, starting with the earliest days of
> the
> Massachusetts colony. >>>
>
> I'm stunned to read about slavery existing in Minnesota even after  slavery
> was banned in 1820.  The rule, handed down by no less than the  US
> Supreme Court was that even though slaves were "bought" elsewhere,
> they were property of their "owners" and remained so, even when they
> moved to antislavery states.
>
> Since one set of great-great grandparents was born in VA and NC,  I
> presume they were familiar with slavery, but there is no history of
> their having slaves after they homesteaded in Minnesota about 1840.
>
> On the Strang side, they were all New York Staters, and I presume
> therefore slave-less, but who knows?
>
> http://www.historicfortsnelling.org/history/slavery-fort-snelling
>
>
>
> David Strang.
>