{"id":811,"date":"2016-07-29T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=811"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T16:56:51","slug":"effects-of-the-fugitive-slave-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/effects-of-the-fugitive-slave-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law Lithograph, 1850"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_832\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-832\" class=\"wp-image-832 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-4-1000x774.jpg\" alt=\"Theodore Kaufman, \u201cEffect of the Fugitive Slave Law,\u201d 1850, via Library of Congress. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-4-1000x774.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-4-250x193.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-4-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-4-500x387.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-4-624x483.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theodore Kaufman, \u201cEffect of the Fugitive Slave Law,\u201d 1850, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2008661523\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This lithograph imagines the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850.&nbsp; Four well-dressed Black men are being hunted by a party of white men, seen in the background.&nbsp; There are a number of ambiguities in the image \u2013 are the Black men enslaved or free?&nbsp; Are they trying to escape or not?&nbsp; Where exactly are they?&nbsp; These ambiguities speak to the concerns many abolitionists had about the law, which required free citizens to return freedom-seekers to their enslavers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lithograph imagines the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850.&nbsp; Four well-dressed Black men are being hunted by a party of white men, seen in the background.&nbsp; There are a number of ambiguities in the image \u2013 are the Black men enslaved or free?&nbsp; Are they trying to escape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-811","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}