{"id":4371,"date":"2023-04-29T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:47:04","slug":"prigg-edward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/prigg-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"Prigg, Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edward Prigg<\/strong> (1791-1853) was a Maryland slave catcher convicted under Pennsylvania&#8217;s 1826 personal liberty law. Prigg appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction and struck down many Northern states&#8217; personal liberty laws\u00a0in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1842-prigg-v-pennsylvania\/\">Prigg. v. Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1842).<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/state-laws-and-freedom-seeking-baker\/\">Baker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/us-constitution-and-fugitive-slave-laws-finkelman\/\">Finkelman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/slaveholder\/\">Slaveholder \/ Slave catcher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Prigg (1791-1853) was a Maryland slave catcher convicted under Pennsylvania&#8217;s 1826 personal liberty law. Prigg appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction and struck down many Northern states&#8217; personal liberty laws\u00a0in Prigg. v. Pennsylvania\u00a0(1842). ESSAYS: Baker \/\/ Finkelman ROLES: Slaveholder \/ Slave catcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaveholder"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}