It allowed “persons” who were held to service or labor and who should escape into other states to be retaken, but it also secured the trial by jury to every “person” who should claim it on any question of life or liberty, and on all questions of property even down to the paltry sum of twenty dollars.
Mann highlights the legal complexities surrounding escaped slaves and their rights under the Constitution.
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