Open Mic: Historic Moment. How Will We Respond Today? | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

Open Mic: Historic Moment. How Will We Respond Today? | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

A person escapes slave labor, torture, rape and murder, and illegally crosses a border to a land where such crimes are outlawed, to a land where people have the right to work for wages and are protected by the law.  Anyone in this “free land” who harbors or aides such an escapee is subject to federal prosecution, fines and imprisonment. This was the United States in 1850 when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, legislation requiring that all…

Open Mic: Historic Moment. How Will We Respond Today?

A person escapes slave labor, torture, rape and murder, and illegally crosses a border to a land where such crimes are outlawed, to a land where people have the right to work for wages and are protected by the law.  Anyone in this “free land” who harbors or aides such an escapee is subject to federal prosecution, fines and imprisonment. This was the United States in 1850 when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, legislation requiring that all…