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Fugitive Slave Clause in the Missouri Compromise.
[Chapter X, p. 298.]
1820, March 19. The Missouri Compromise provided "that any persons
escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed
in any State or Territory of the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully
reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor, or
service, as aforesaid."—Annals of Congress, 16 Cong. 1 Sess., 1469, 1587.
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