{"id":4526,"date":"2023-04-29T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:36:47","slug":"van-zandt-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/van-zandt-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Zandt, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Van Zandt<\/strong> (1791-1847) was an Ohio abolitionist whose refusal to pay damages for assisting freedom seekers led to his conviction under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act and prompted the US Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1847-jones-v-van-zandt\/\"><em>Jones v. Van Zandt<\/em><\/a> (1847), which affirmed the constitutionality of the 1793 law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS: <\/strong><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\/ugrr-operative\/\">UGRR Operative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Van Zandt (1791-1847) was an Ohio abolitionist whose refusal to pay damages for assisting freedom seekers led to his conviction under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act and prompted the US Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Jones v. Van Zandt (1847), which affirmed the constitutionality of the 1793 law. ESSAYS: Finkelman ROLES: UGRR Operative<\/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":[23512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ugrr-operative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","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=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}