Nara: Teaching With Documents: Fugitive From Labor Cases

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) highlights two fugitive from labor cases dealing with slavery -- specifically Henry Garnett and Moses Honner. The content of the lesson provided here compares these cases to demonstrate the increasingly volatile political crisis in the 1850s arising over the issue of slavery. See how the treatment of the two cases were so different because of events over that 10 year period.