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298 PART 3 REVOLUTION AND REPUBLICAN CULTURE, 1754%u20131800DOCUMENT 4Source: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787.Art. 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. . . .Art. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.DOCUMENT 5Source: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793.For the better security of the peace and friendship now entered into by the contracting parties, against all infractions of the same, by the citizens of either party, to the prejudice of the other, neither party shall proceed to the infliction of punishments on the citizens of the other, otherwise than by securing the offender, or offenders, by imprisonment, or any other competent means, till a fair and impartial trial can be had by judges or juries of both parties, as near as can be, to the laws, customs, and usage%u2019s of the contracting parties, and natural justice. . . . And it is further agreed between the parties aforesaid, that neither shall entertain, or give countenance to, the enemies of the other, or protect, in their respective states, criminal fugitives, servants, or slaves, but the same to apprehend and secure, and deliver to the state or states, to which such enemies, criminals, servants, or slaves, respectively belong.DOCUMENT 6Source: %u201cKeep Within Compass,%u201d c. 1795.%u201cKeep within Compass,%u201d engraving, c. 1795, Courtesy of Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Gift of Henry Francis du Pont, 1954.0093.001 A.Text at top reads: %u201cHow blest the Maid whose bosom no headstrong passion knows, Her days in Joy she Passes, her nights in soft repose.%u201dText at bottom reads: %u201cVirtuous Woman is a Crown to her Husband.%u201d%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.