South Carolina legally enslaved free black sailors entering its ports

Evidence

Under a law of 1822, the Negro Seamen Act, South Carolina asserted the right to seize black seamen who dared enter Carolina waters as sailors on ships, and under an amendment of 1835, these seamen could be sold as slaves. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1274

Categorization

• SHARE: Narrow maritime law detail only someone into admiralty or antebellum legal history would savor.
• XREF: connects to: The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act endangered even free Black people across the North — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 711

Broader Connections

• The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act endangered even free Black people across the North #expands (0.95) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 711