The Path to Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Act

In the end they are free. After months of traveling and hiding, I do not know whether they can be caught, they finally arrived in the north. Without the "Fugitive Slavery Law", their trip will end there. This bill stipulates that by law the people in the north are demanding returning to an uncontrollable slave. This will ensure that runaway slaves have to endure the more difficult terrain to reach their ultimate goal - Canada. I also want to abolish slavery by believing that a slave not only wants freedom but slavery is wrong.

The establishment of the "Fugitive Slavery Law" in 1850 increased the punishment for the escape slaves and those who helped them. Therefore the fugitives left the United States completely and tried to go to Canada and Mexico. When slavery in the United States was legal, about 100,000 slaves were free of freedom. Prior to the establishment of the United States, Florida became the territory of the United States until 1821, the destination of the fugitive slave was Florida in Spain. In a policy formally enacted in 1693, Spain gave freedom to a safe haven and an escaped British slave, as long as Spain converts to Catholicism and serves with militia. The original free arrangement of former American slaves was Santa Teresa Mosé near St. Augustine, Florida. When Florida became the UK in 1763, the community was dissolved, most of the slaves retreated to Cuba, and the Spanish army protected St. Augustine's San Marcos Fortress.

For the fugitives who escaped from slavery, the north is free country. Or he or she would like to. After arriving there, the fugitive found that they are no longer slaves but are not free. Northern African Americans live in a strange semi-free state. The northern may have released slaves, but it is not ready to handle blacks as citizens yet. . . Sometimes even human beings. Northern racial discrimination is derived directly from slavery, and these ideas are used to justify institutions. The concept of "black" and "white" did not reach the first European and African people, but grew up in the land of America. During the regime of Andrew Jackson, the racist idea had a new meaning. Jackson brought "era of ordinary people". Under his control, the working classes gained the right they did not have before, especially the voting rights. But the only beneficiary is white. Blacks, Indians and women are not included