Nationalized Slavery: The Fugitive Slave Law

In this episode, Chris Calton looks at the horrors of fugitive slave laws, the ways government incentivized the kidnapping of free blacks, and the rise of private defense groups to fight off slavers.
Calton gives a revisionist look at the antebellum period leading up to the Civil War. This is the third episode in the second season of Historical Controversies.
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[@d4n4nable]

Man, you really make these emotionally captivating. Good job, this needs many more views.

[@jajaunfreeman1166]

Great job bro very clear And detail

[@EdT.-xt6yv]

🎯

[@user-nh3xt5bo1i]

Wow. I wasn't aware of any of this. Thank you for this series.

[@marcelbelhomme2796]

Deuteronomy 23: 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

[@waddadawd]

This is a great series, I look forward to it every week

[@glascoebowie9359]

These people didn't have law they had rules that kept them in power

[@SteveBMayer]

The truth of human history is dark.

[@johngalt97]

It bears witness to that which is eternal. Existence is earned and cowardice is not virtue.

[@TotallyLegitman]

wow

[@AcidbrainwashEffect]

6 pointed star as a badge = Slave recovery agent. 5 = Sheriff Circle star = Federal or entire State Jurisdiction ie: Texas Rangers Good video

[@kneelingcatholic]

Chris, you really need to read Genovese’s Roll Jordan Roll. ( also Fogel and Engerman’s Time on the Cross) Genovese’s tome will inform you thoroughly regarding what southern slavery really looked like. I. E. nothing like what you (and most of us) imagine it was. E. G. Slave children were way more likely to be raised by their own two parents than modern African American children, the risk of the former being sold down the river notwithstanding . Also (Engermann) rape and forced sexual liaisons were way more rare than what ‘coloring book’ historians have led us to believe. Thank God we have passed that sad time and women nowadays are never pressured by their bosses for sexual favors!!! Then there was the massive incarceration of black males and the aborting of millions of black children ...oh wait, I’m sorry! That’s today’s ‘happy’ situation. In the (sad) antebellum South, prisons -and lynchings- were for ‘whites only’ and Very few slave women murdered their babies, in stark contrast to today’s ‘happy’ situation and Your introductory anecdote. Slavery was brutal and Dixie was racist .......but if dna studies mean anything, many Southern whites are part African. They have ‘Romeo and Janelle’ DNA as well as - brace yourself- ‘Roderick and Juliet’. Contrast this to today’s white Yankee ivory soap pedigrees! I’m not sure how this new info supports your old narrative, but I guess you could say ‘ Dixie’s whites were so racist they were even part black!!!’ I enjoy your podcasts and I am not criticizing you. You can’t be an expert on minutiae about everything! But you can try!

[@megalodontheestallion5241]

" I can't be racist! I rape my slaves!" How TF does that sound?! Also, how do they know that there weren't nearly as many rapes of enslaved peoples as originally believed?! Every single sexual encounter during that time between the races was routed in lopsided power dynamics that make the giving of consent dubious at best.

[@kneelingcatholic]

@@megalodontheestallion5241 >>>>>"Every single sexual encounter was routed in lopsided power dynamics....

[@megalodontheestallion5241]

@@kneelingcatholic touch. I didn't pick up on this interesting and all-too-important fact about these Jerome & Juliet relationships spawning children. The power dynamic between White and black during the antebellum. Or such that regardless of gender, this power could at the drop of a dime be used in order to get whatever one wanted (the accusation of rape could and often would result in death of the male partner.) Nowadays, your life and limb are no longer so easily put at risk.

[@EdT.-xt6yv]

9:00 lincoln

[@sterlingferguson1704]

The slave catchers traveled all over the US catching blacks and shipping them south. 12 years as a slave movie was based on this.

[@senselessnothing]

I don't get how slavery has anything to do with race

[@aretlev]

Only white Americans owned slaves. I learned that during my public schooling.

[@senselessnothing]

I feel very weird when I discuss slavery because it's so natural and sometimes good yet people seem to have a very strong distaste for it. Some people in this world would really benefit from demanding contracts that may look more like slavery ownership contracts simply because it would free them from more horrid conditions that they necessarily have to live. I once heard a nigerian argue that given how terrible life can be, he would rather have the option of becoming a slave than not. Or are the modern government granted monopolies that have turned the employment markets into employer markets and necessitate servitude through huge debts any better? To me this seems way out of touch.

[@immaculatesquid]

Tasos Obscure Youre not trying to justify slavery? and id really like some of these sources. Indentured Servitude was outlawed with slavery because both imply a master complex which contradicts that all men are created equal and hold the same rights from God.

[@immaculatesquid]

Tasos Obscure and also even if your stats are true, that gives no reason to take anyones rights away.

[@senselessnothing]

I fundamentally disagree with right based legal systems in the first place especially the right to vote. People shouldn't have the right to do anything to anyone unless both volunteer into an exchange. I also put some pragmatism into the mix and accept that serial killers should be jailed or killed, so I'm not that crazy. As far as the data go the literature is immense, you can start with The Bell Curve from Herrstein and Murray or maybe just search for IQ on some explorer, you will get way too much feedback.

[@bunk95]

Suicide is fictional dude.

[@stephanpeterthree]

First