The Supreme Court case Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) involved

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The case of Prigg v. Pennsylvania dealt with the question of whether states could interfere with the federal government's Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, which required citizens to assist in the capture and return of enslaved individuals who had escaped. Edward Prigg, a slave catcher, was convicted in Pennsylvania for kidnapping a woman and her child who were claimed as slaves by a Maryland slaveholder. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the federal government had the exclusive power to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and that states could not pass laws that interfered with it.

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