Slave Act

Slave Act may refer to:

  • The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, a law passed by the United States Congress.
  • The Slave Trade Act of 1794, a law passed by the United States Congress.
  • The Slave Trade Act 1807, an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
  • The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, a United States federal law from 1807.
  • The Slave Compensation Act 1837, an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
  • The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a law passed by the United States Congress.

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or act:

    “Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.”
    —Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)