New England
Ministers Resolve to Oppose the Fugitive Slave Act, 1850.
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- An 1850 amendment to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 included a provision mandating the
return of fugitive slaves. About nine hundred fugitive slaves, of an estimated ten thousand, were
returned under the 1850 act.
- This resolution of the Barnstable County Association of Universalists was signed by several
prominent New England area abolitionist ministers. The ministers resolved that the 1850
amendment was "directly opposed to the spirit of our holy religion" and that they would "use all
honorable means to effect its repeal."
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