Antebellum Federal Protections of Slavery
23 February 2026

Antebellum Federal Protections of Slavery

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Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the federal government—not just slave states—had implemented legal protections of slavery by policy for decades.

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