Nope
no canada was not a slave state
No a slave catcher could come and take them back but in Canada they were free
Mississippi was a slave state until the end of the Civil War.
Great Slave Lake is located in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Slave state
Basically, if a slave escaped from their masters to a free state or even Canada, their former master could eventually find and capture them. There was no limit on how long this was possible for.
Wisconsin was not a slave state.
it was a free state >3
A slave state.
Slave state
Slave state is a state that was FOR slavery back in the day.
Slaves had to go as far as Canada to be free since the United States Government had no jurisdiction in that area. If a slave simply went to a northern state, he/she could be hunted down as a fugitive slave with a bounty on their head.