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Fugitive Slave Act

The Fugitive Slave Act, a federal statute that protected slaveholders' claims and was defended by Democrats as part of national constitutional obligations.

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What specific Democratic Party platforms in the 1840s–1850s endorsed slavery, and which Democrats opposed them?

official platforms and public positions in the 1840s–1850s repeatedly defended the principle that Congress should not interfere with slavery in the states and territories, language that functionally e...