6 ore 2 min, 18 sett 1850 anni - The Fugitive Slave Act

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Part of the compromise of 1850; a law that made it a crime to help a runaway slave. In areas where slavery was illegal it made people who saw run away slaves return them to their proper owner. Many Northerners disliked this law.

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