Hi Aryanna
Impact of Fugitive Slave Law--
Particularly think about free northern blacks who may not have have had proper documentation of their free status. How does this affect their legal rights under the Fugitive Slave Law. How does tis affect their economic well-being? How does this affect them psychologically and in their family/kinship and social interactions?
Some 3,000 were wrongfully sold into slavery.
Consider how free black communities had to cooperate with abolitionists in order to protect themselves.
Dred Scott decision rules that blacks were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court. They had no enforceable federal rights. States now had to afford them legal remedies. Those rights varied from state to state.
I hope this helps clarify some issues that may need to be developed.
Ken
