I think you are confused. The act was not to help slaves, but allowed catching slaves. It was called the Fugitive Slave Act. It gave men the freedom to go find run away slaves.
The act to help runaway slaves was called the Underground Railroad. It was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by abolitionists in the United States to help enslaved individuals escape to free states or Canada.
The people who help runaway slaves are known as conductors or stationmasters on the Underground Railroad. They provided assistance and guidance to enslaved individuals seeking freedom by helping them navigate routes to safety and providing shelter along the way.
The Underground Railroad was the name of the system that helped runaway slaves escape to freedom in the northern states and Canada. It was a network of routes and safe houses operated by abolitionists and sympathetic individuals.
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the 19th century to escape to free states or Canada. It was not an actual railroad but a network of people who assisted in the escape of slaves.
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Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution orders it. Presumably you are asking about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which was a part of the Great Compromise of 1850. This law tried to more strongly enforce the Constitutional requirement to return runaway slaves; before 1850, many Northern states were passing laws that made it difficult to return slaves, such as by giving them the right to a trial. The Fugitive Slave Act set up special government commissioners who held considerable power to return slaves, and it overruled laws that would give slaves rights like the right to trial or even to testify in court. Police and other government officials who were caught not complying with the Act were automatically given very large fines and even prison sentences.
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Runaway slaves didn't have code names.
A person whose business was catching escaped slaves to return them to their owners was called a "slave catcher."
The Underground Railroad was the name of the system that helped runaway slaves escape to freedom in the northern states and Canada. It was a network of routes and safe houses operated by abolitionists and sympathetic individuals.
The Underground Railroad
Contrabands were runaway slaves in the North.
They called them lenth warmers
Many slaves escaped. The name of one who escaped and was recaptured is Moses Roper. There was a society who helped them to escape and they had a system called the "underground railroad" which helped lots of slaves, lead by Harriet Tubman. Another famous escaped slave was Fredrick Douglass, who escaped from the south and fled to the north to become a distinguished abolitionist.
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They were called freedmen.
They are called slave owners.
The organization established to help former slaves make the change into a life of freedom was called The Freedman's Bureau.