Citation
An Act to Further Protect Personal Liberty, March 24, 1843, FULL TEXT via State Library of Massachusetts
Excerpt
Freedom seeker George Latimer’s arrest prompted the passage of Massachusetts’s 1843 personal liberty law (House Divided Project)
Sec. 1. No judge of any court of record of this Commonwealth, and no justice of the peace, shall hereafter take cognizance or grant a certificate in cases that may arise under the third section of an act of Congress, passed February twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, and entitled “an Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters,” to any person who claims any other person as a fugitive slave within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth.
Related Sources
- George Latimer Autobiographical Sketches
- Proceedings of the Citizens of the Borough of Norfolk (Norfolk, MA: T.G. Broughton, 1843)