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12-21-2014, 01:38 PM (This post was last modified: 12-21-2014 01:45 PM by Thomas Thorne.)
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The constitutional obligation of states to return criminals,slaves or indentured servants to the places from which they escaped should not be confused with the idea that the US government lacked the ability to prohibit or regulate slavery in the territories. The Federal government could do so under its authority to govern its territories.

Congress prohibited slavery in the old Northwest in its ordinances of 1784 and 1787. The latter was adopted by the 1st Congress in 1789. The law was approved by George Washington who when the capitol was moved to Philadelphia the following year was careful not to have the number of his personal slaves in Philadelphia exceed the maximum number permitted by Pennsylvania law lest they be freed.

In the acts of organizing Mississippi and Louisiana territories in 1798 and 1804 Congress permitted slavery but prohibited the importation of foreign slaves to those areas. These provisions likely violated the migratory clause of the constitution which forbade passage of laws prohibiting importation of foreign slaves until 1808 unless you believe this clause only applied to Congressional action regulating slave commerce into existing states.

The Louisiana law was signed by another slave holding president, Thomas Jefferson. The law also prohibited carrying slaves into Louisiana who entered the United States after 1798 and forbade slaveholders from bringing slaves into the territory unless it was for their personal use.

These laws excited little controversy in their day. They were accepted by a southern political class of the founding era which did not accept Chief Justice Taney's and 1850 Southern Hotspurs ideas of congressional inability to govern slavery in the territories.
Tom
PS -Sorry Laurie ,my rough word count is 247. Please don't send the word count censor shark after me blaring the theme from "Jaws."
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