Immigrants are starting to m it to. For the gold rush, and working on the railroads and mines and such. So our population is exploding and changing. At a dramatic rate. Susan do you know approximately how many enslaved persons were in the United States at the time . Ilyon woo thats another good question, i am not on top of the figures. Susan i wrote down, about 3 million. That is one of your historical figures referenced. We will use that number from your book. You also tell readers that we think about the fugitive slave law is something that came out of the compromise of 1850, but you remind your readers that George Washington actually signed fugitive slave legislation so it had been enforced since the very founding of the country. What did that early legislation mean for enslaved people, what did it do to their lives . Ilyon woo both the fugitive slave law, the 18th century fugitive slave law and a clause in the constitution itself, made it possible for, or legalized enslavers rights
Somebody walked into the classroom saying we all had to leave. Students told us they didnt hear anything but knew something was wrong when they were told to leave in the middle of class. I just whipped around the corner and found someone laying on the floor. All the police were blocking everything off. The stabbing started inside the Cobb Building in the library and then moved outside. Some students told us they saw the suspect. He was a current student. He had like a sweatshirt and the hoodie was up and it could cover his whole face. He was shot by a Campus Police officer on the bridge which cuts through the middle of campus. And when we walked closer, we saw the police trying to resuscitate him and bring him back. If that aufrgs hasnt been in the location, i believed there would have been more victims to this. Of the four injured, two were students, one was a staff member another was a vendor believed to be a construction worker. As far as we can tell, the injuries dont appear to be
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