Time.com: "One of American History’s Worst Laws Was Passed 165 Years Ago"

Time.com's regular online series Historians explain how the past informs the present recently featured an article by James Cobb on the the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The act, said Cobb, the act "marked a low point in American legislative history." Cobb is Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia.

 

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