---
title: 'The Fugitive Slave Law (1860)'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Charles Hodge'
date: 1969-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
- 'Citizenship and Government'
scriptures:
- 'Deuteronomy 23'
- 'Romans 13'
- 'Acts 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/hodge-1969-the-fugitive-slave-law-1860
---

# The Fugitive Slave Law (1860)

Mid-19th-century pro-slavery defense arguing the Fugitive Slave Law is constitutional and that government is divinely ordained, obliging obedience despite abolitionist claims.

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