The Fugitive Slave Act. Reaction in the North was so negative that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' about it.
Fugitive slave act
The Fugitive Slave Act
Because of the Fugitive Slave Act, where official slave-catchers were appointed to return runaways to their owners.
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Man-Stealing Law
allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person
allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person
The Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways. This caused a highly emotive reaction in the North, and it made Harriet Beecher Stowe so angry that she wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
Because one part of it was the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways. This caused an emotive reaction in the North, and caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed a slave state into the union when alternated with a free state. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the US as a slave state and part of Massachusetts was divided to allow the entrance of Maine into the US as a free state.
Yes, it was a rather desperate deal, with concessions to the South to compensate for their agreement to admit California to the Union as free soil. One of these was the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways. This provoked the best-selling anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which dramatised the slave debate and caught the attention of millions who had not felt strongly about it until then.