Margaret Morgan was a Maryland freedom seeker seized by Maryland slave catcher Edward Prigg in 1837. Prigg’s conviction under Pennsylvania’s 1826 personal liberty law for kidnapping Morgan led to the US Supreme Court’s decision in Prigg. v. Pennsylvania (1842), which not only overturned Prigg’s conviction but also ruled that Northern states’ many personal liberty laws (like Pennsylvania’s) were unconstitutional.
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