five-hundred-dollars

Updated: May 14, 2025

By the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act, as it was called, any one convicted of that offense, besides a liability for one thousand dollars damages recoverable in a civil action, was subject to a five-hundred-dollars fine and imprisonment in a penitentiary for one year.

John F. (John Ferguson) Hume - The Abolitionists: Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights