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- GLC#
- GLC00267.136.01
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- January 21, 1841
- Author/Creator
- Alabama. Legislature.
- Title
- Resolutions of the general assembly of Alabama, in relation to the obligations of the States to surrender fugitive slaves from justice.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 14.7 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
26th Congress, 2d session, Senate document no. 127. Printed by Blair & Rivers. Concerns the stealing and carrying away of a slave named Atticus by Daniel Philbrook and Edward Kilbron from Georgia to Maine. Maine refused to surrender Philbrook and Kilbron as fugitives from justice. Resolves that states should be required to surrender fugitives from justice from other states according to the U.S. Constitution.
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