Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Millard Fillmore
Standard Name: Fillmore, Millard
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18 September 1850: The Fugitive Slave Act (or Runaway Slave...
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18 September 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act (or Runaway Slave Act) was passed by American president Millard Fillmore
, giving slaveowners wide power to abduct people of colour in both slave and non-slave states.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. 20th Anniversary Edition, HarperCollins, 1999.
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Evans, Richard J. The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth Century History. Editors Belchem, John and Richard Price, Penguin, 1996.
