What is the name of the law that made helping a runaway slave, a crime?
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The Fugitive Slave Act, see Dred Scott decision, 1854.
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Nothing at all.....yes they should be punished to the fullest extint of the law.  How does it look for the people who are put in place to enforce the law constantly break it and get away scott free?  This may go on but it takes courageous individuals who know of this type of inappropriate behavior to come forward and make this unsavory deeds known.  No matter what the cost....a philosopher once said....without struggle there is no success.......
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Big time cause it ultimately put up a claim that Slavery was technically legal in the whole Nation even if a State had an Anti-Slavery law because it was said that if a Slave fled to a Free State then he was automatically Free.\n\nDred Scott had himself been a Slave but his owner had moved to a Free State moving Dred Scott with him.\n\nWhen owner and Dred Scott moved to a Slave State, Dred was sold to another person so then Dred Scott sued citing because he had lived on Free soil he was thus Free.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled that Slaves were Property not Citizens and thus could not sue.\n\nThey also ruled that living on Free Soil did not Free a Slave at all.\n\nLuckily Dred Scott's new owner did free Dred Scott but unfortunately the case caused a lot of problems that practically led to the Civil War.
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the Compromise of 1850, thereby repulsing Southern threats of secession while urging Northern support for a stronger law for the recovery of fugitive slaves.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850
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It's hard to tell what you are asking, but I think you are talking about 'Conspiracy'. Some laws protect things other than human safety, such as property. For instance, fraud or theft doesn't hurt anyone specifically, but it hurts the economy, both on an individual and largescale level. For someone to get punished for conspiracy is to teach them for the future. If you get punished for conspiracy, than hopefully in the future you would think twice about your options beyond crime, and find a legal way to get what you want. If this doesn't answer your question, repost and reword your question.
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Harriet Ross was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Given the names of her two parents, both held in slavery, she was of purely African ancestry. She was raised under harsh conditions, and subjected to whippings even as a small child. At the age of 12 she was seriously injured by a blow to the head, inflicted by a white overseer for refusing to assist in tying up a man who had attempted escape. \n\nAt the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American. Five years later, fearing she would be sold South, she made her escape. \n\nTubman was given a piece of paper by a white neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination. Following the route to Pennsylvania, she initially settled in Philadelphia, where she met William Still, the Philadelphia Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad. With the assistance of Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society, she learned about the workings of the UGRR. \n\nIn 1851 she began relocating members of her family to St. Catharines, (Ontario) Canada West. North Street in St. Catharines remained her base of operations until 1857. While there she worked at various activities to save to finance her activities as a Conductor on the UGRR, and attended the Salem Chapel BME Church on Geneva Street. \n\nAfter freeing herself from slavery, Harriet Tubman returned to Maryland to rescue other members of her family. In all she is believed to have conducted approximately 300 persons to freedom in the North. The tales of her exploits reveal her highly spiritual nature, as well as a grim determination to protect her charges and those who aided them. She always expressed confidence that God would aid her efforts, and threatened to shoot any of her charges who thought to turn back.\n\nWhen William Still published The Underground Railroad in 1871, he included a description of Harriet Tubman and her work. The section of Still's book captioned below begins with a letter from Thomas Garret, the Stationmaster of Wilmington, Delaware. Wilmington and Philadelphia were on the major route followed by Tubman, and by hundreds of others who escaped from slavery in Maryland. For this reason, Still was in a position to speak from his own firsthand knowledge of Tubman's work.\n\nOn the road between Syracuse and Rochester, would be found a number of sympathetic Quakers and other abolitionists settled at Auburn. Here also was the home of US Senator and former New York State Governor William H. Seward. Sometime in the mid-1850s, Tubman met Seward and his wife Frances. Mrs. Seward provided a home for Tubman's favorite niece, Margaret, after Tubman helped her to escape from Maryland. In 1857, the Sewards provided a home for Tubman, to which she relocated her parents from St. Catharines. This home was later sold to her for a small sum, and became her base of operations when she was not on the road aiding fugitives from slavery, and speaking in support of the cause.\n\nTubman was closely associated with Abolitionist John Brown, and was well acquainted with the other Upstate abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Jermain Loguen, and Gerrit Smith.She worked closely with Brown, and reportedly missed the raid on Harper's Ferry only because of illness.\n\nAfter the outbreak of the Civil War, Tubman served as a soldier, spy, and a nurse, for a time serving at Fortress Monroe, where Jefferson Davis would later be imprisoned. While guiding a group of black soldiers in South Carolina, she met Nelson Davis, who was ten years her junior. Denied payment for her wartime service, Tubman was forced, after a bruising fight, to ride in a baggage car on her return to Auburn.\n\nAfter the close of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman returned to Auburn, NY. There she married Nelson Davis, and lived in a home they built on South Street,
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The story is that in the days of slavery many were whipped to force them to work or perform tasks. Thus the skin would be flayed from their backs. If you were a slave who did as he were told you wouldn't be whipped although your companion may be, hence the phrase.
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Isn't parlay that thing from Pirates of the Carribean? Some law that the pirates had about not killing a prisoner until the morning if they requested it.
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I am guessing you are talking of the organized aid to people in slavery in the USA.\n\nThe National Park Service has details at http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/\n\nUC Davis, University of California has a similar site at http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm.\n\nAnother useful site :\n\nhttp://collections.ic.gc.ca/underground/flightall.html.\n\nThe National Geographic has an interactive feature on it at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j2.html
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Yep. it is illegal.\nThis is called "false arrest".[1]\nContact a lawyer immediately.
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fugitive slave laws allowed for slaves who escaped to be brought back into slavery even after they made it to the north.\n\nThey made it harder for African Americans to be free and escape slavery.
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well strike the 3rd answer down dude.false imprisonment is something that happens more than you think especially in states that do not have discovery laws .and in my opinon they do not have those laws for the simple reason they want to be able to railroad the poor and innocent and "falsely Imprison"them.The southern states ars real good about that.\nas long as there is no discoverly then the prosecution can hide facts that downright prove the charged person is innocent.And yes they knowingly do this just to embellish their conviction record to help futher their careers down the road and the part that kills me is not only are these low lifes still able to sleep but,the Law lets them get away with it and when it is,(years later usually)discovered there is nothing the innocent person can do to get back the freedom that was taken from him.
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From what you describe, it does not sound like kidnapping would really apply. Standard kidnapping requires holding someone against their will and the only other statute that could theoretically apply concerns someone who "maliciously, forcibly, or fraudulently lead, take, carry away, decoy, or entice away, any child under the age of 14 years," which also does not sound like it applies. The only statute I can find that seems to fit the bill is contributing to the neglect or delinquency of a minor, which is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in prison and up to $500 in fines. Other laws may apply, but you haven't provided very many details about the case.\n\nEdit: From your clarification, it sounds like kidnapping still would not apply, but the other charge would if your daughter is under 14 years old. The punishment has no mandatory minimum and a maximum of life. You should likely consult with a lawyer and/or the DA's office. You could have a civil suit against the women.
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See, I am in Third Grade and I love writing about the history of people that have helped me and my family see my dad was born into slavery and he also escaped to the North with Harriet Tubman. Sorry to get off track but here is a part of my report from my studies I learned that Harriet Tubman first escaped to the north by her self then she realized that if she only helped herself she would be selfish and so she made nineteen trips to the south and helped over three hundred people escape from slavery. Again sorry for getting off track but she was against slavery because she said that we should not be judged by the color of our skin and that it is very unfair for white people to own black people.My dad got some slave laws and here they are. \n\n                          Slave Laws\n1. No one was allowed to teach slaves how to read or write nor were they to be given books or pamphlets.\n\n2. Slaves were not allowed to buy or consume liquor without the written consent of their masters.\n\n3. Slave owners were required to feed and clothe their slaves and take care of their sick and elderly slaves. Failure to do so could result in a fine to the master.\n\n4. Slaves were not allowed to preach, except to their masters' slaves on their own plantation and in presence of white people.\n\n5. Any child who had one free parent and one slave parent was only free if the mother was the free parent.\n\n6. Slaves could not conduct business without a permit or own any personal prperty.\n\n7. Slaves were not allowed to own or have their possession weapons of any kind.\n\n8. The testimony of slaves in court was disallowed  exept in those cases involving other slaves.\n\n9. It was illegal to mistreat or kill a slave unless the slave resisted punishment.\n\n10. SLaves were not allowed to strike white men or to insult them in any way.\n\n11. Slaves were never allowed to enter into any kind of legal binding contract, including contracts of marriage.\n\n12. A slave who traveled away from his own plantation  had to have a pass to show as a means of identification to any white man who challenged him.\n\n13. Slaves were not allowed to swear, smoke or walk with a cane in public.\n\n14. Slaves had to step aside when whites passed them on a public street.\n\n15. It was illegal for mare than five slaves to gather together away from their own homes unless in the presence of white people.\n\n16. Slaves were not allowed to own their own animals, nor could they grow their own cotton; however, theey could  have thier own gardens if thier masters allowed.\n\n17. It was illegal for a master to work his slave in the field on Sundays exept as punishment or unless he paid them for their work.\n\nI hope all the above information helps you an your school project. E-mail me and tell me if this info works or not. My e-mail address is a-maknojia@sbcglobal.net.
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call your local police dept. they can tell you the statutes on that.
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Trafficking in human beings is the commercial trade ("smuggling") of human beings, who are subjected to involuntary acts such as begging, sexual exploitation (eg. prostitution and forced marriage), or unfree labour (eg. involuntary servitude or working in sweatshops). Trafficking involves a process of using physical force, fraud, deception, or other forms or coercion or intimidation to obtain, recruit, harbour, and transport people.
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Depends if you had anything to do with described crime.  If you were an innocent bystander, than no.  But if you were helping the criminal out, i.e preparing to drive him away from the scene of a crime before he got caught, then yes, its aiding and abetting a criminal