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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 48



7. An Act to Give Effect to the Provisions of the Constitution of the United States, Relative to Fugitives from Labor, for the Protection of Free People of Color, and to Prevent Kidnapping ([Pennsylvania?]: Atkinson & Alexander, 1826). (10 p.)


Legislation in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives designed to prevent slave catchers from seizing free men and women of color and transporting them South to be sold as slaves.