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I strongly recommend that the article of "fugitive slave laws" be kept separate from articles about individual laws. Persons who are interested in the overall topic of fugitive slave laws may benefit from a short read about the general subject matter, but the individual acts of Congress (or of other legislative bodies outside the US) are a topic of specific interest that may interest scholars who want to know about particular laws. As a Wiki consumer, I'd hate to have to slog thru a long essay about Dredd Scott in the 1850s when what I really want to learn about is the politics in the Washington administration that brought the act of 1793 into being. Of course in classic Wiki fashion, the separate articles should all link to each other. Bucky Rea (unregistered Wiki user) 9pm CST, 10 August 2005
I agree whole heartedly. Any other website would simply combine the two to create a generalized quagmire of information. Wiki's concise organization is one of its major advantages that it holds over other reference websites. Hoover (unregistered Wiki user)5:45pm PT, October 4, 2005
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Regarding, " It made it a federal duty to assist an escaping slave, and established the legal mechanism by which escaped slaves could be seized (even in "free" states), ..."
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I assume the word you intended there is "crime" rather than "duty", right?
