It protected the Southern slave owners' property rights. Often once a slave ran to a Northern state the slave would begin a new life in the north.... and Slave owners would find it very hard to go to the north and get their former slaves and bring them back home, even if they knew where they were. This new federal law stated that the local Northern laws must help assist the slave owner in capturing a known runaway.
The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the capture of a runaway slave and the return to his/her owner. The North, which took an increasingly strong stance of abolitionism toward the 1860s, did not approve of this act because it strengthened the practice of slavery.
Many northerners were a part of the underground railroad or even gave runaway slaves a place to live.
The Fugitive Slave act was part of the Compromise of 1850. The compromise of 1850 said any new states would be free states as long as they passed the fugitive slave act. This act made Northerners turn in runaway slaves.
With extreme indignation at being treated like unpaid slave-catchers. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against it.
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The Fugitive Slave Law. This caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which drew slavery to the attention of large numbers who had not taken much interest in it before.
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The reason the second federal fugitive slave law made northerners upset was because most northerners thought that slavery was immoral and that they would have to help capture the slaves or be finned is impeachment of there rights.
They didn't like being turned into unpaid slave-catchers.
It angered Northerners, because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South.
It angered Northerners, because they were forced to return slaves that had escaped back to their owners in the South.
Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.
Northerners, especially abolitionists, disliked the 'Bloodhound Law' as it required escaped slaves to be returned to their masters even if they were found in a free state. Northerners worried that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of a vast conspiracy of the southern plantation elite.
because it is a law that that required northerners to return escaped slaves to their owners.