Sentence Examples

  • This was a famous fugitive slave case.
  • Laws were also passed during his term putting obstacles in the way of recovering fugitive slaves.
  • A solitary fugitive, he crossed the Turkish frontier.
  • Underlying all of these issues was of course the great moral and political problem as to whether slavery was to be confined to the south-eastern section of the country or be permitted to spread to the Pacific. The two questions not growing out of the Mexican War were in regard to the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and the passage of a new fugitive slave law.
  • In accordance with ancient custom Jerusalem welcomed the fugitive Zealots.
 
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