Illustration for page 9, The American
Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, Vol. I, No. 4).
Courtesy The John Hay Library, Brown University.
Caption:
Facts. Our GOVERNMENT has tried to enslave
many thousand persons who are enjoying their inalienable rights in
Canada. May 10, 1828, the following resolution was adopted in the
U.S. House of Representatives, and as appears from the journal
without opposition, or the calling for the yeas and nays.
Resolved, That the President of the U.S.
be and he is hereby requested to open a
negotiation with the British Government, in the view to obtain an
arrangement whereby fugitive slaves who have taken
refuge in the Canadian provinces of that
Government, may be surrendered by the functionaries thereof to their
masters, upon their making satisfactory proof of their ownership of
said slaves."—Jour. H. R. 1 Sess. 20th Cong. Pp. 715 and 720.
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