Devarim 23: Taney did not do 929

YINR 929: Tanach Yomi · May 3, 2026 · 2m

The struggle between the southern slave holding states and the northern mostly free states reached a boiling point in the mid 19th century before the start of the Civil War. As a last act of desperation to try to hold the Union together, Stephen Douglas and Henry Clay helped pass the Compromise of 1850. One part of the Compromise was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Under this act, all law enforcement in both northern and southern states were required to return enslaved people who had escaped to free states. The Act was meant to shore up the earlier Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, which had been…