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What was that law that was for returning slaves if they were in the North states?
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The Fugitive Slave Act.
It was meant to appease the South for not allowing slavery in California. But it was unworkable, and brought many new converts to the cause fo Abolitionism.
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What law was passed to help Southern states capture runaway slaves?
Fugitive slave law
Fugitive Slave Act?
A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was highly unpopular in the North and helped to convert many previously indifferent northerners to antislavery.
What law was passed to help southern states captured escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
Which law were passed by states to limit what slaves could do?
Slave codes (APEX)
What was the fugitive slavery act?
The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted by the United States Congress in1793. It allowed the owner of a runaway slave to recover his slave by merely appearing before any magistrate and declare that the slave in question belonged to him. The law further held state and local officials responsible for capturing runaway slaves and returning them to their owners. In 1842, the Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement officers in the states were not obliged to assist Federal officials in these endeavors. However, Congress enacted, as part of the Compromise of 1850, a more rigorous Fugitive Salve Law which required state and local officials to assist and cooperate with federal officials in the capture and return runaway slaves. This meant that runaway slaves were not completely safe until they reached Canada. It also put those who were assisting escaped slaves in violation of federal law.
What did the Fugitive Act call for?
The Fugitive Slave Acts aimed at returning the escaped slaves to their owners/masters by law. These acts caused big disagreement between the South and the North because the 'free states' in the north did not enforce this law and were reluctant to force the slaves back, not to mention to let the masters' men search for the fugitives in the north. The first act was made in 1793, the second was made in 1850 (focused on the trafic through the Underground Railroad).
Who was happy about Fugitive Slave Law and who was not?
Slave holders were in favor of the Fugitive Slave Law as it required that slaves that escaped to the North would have to be returned to their owners. In the North the anti slavery abolitionists were against the law. They were anti slavery to begin with and wanted slaves who escaped to the North to be considered freed slaves.
What is the law of 1850?
This law would require police in the free states to help capture slaves escaping from slave states
What law allowed escaped slaves in the north to be recaptured?
A strict sedition
What law was passed to help Southern states capture runaway slaves?
Fugitive slave law
What did the fugitative slave law do?
captured slaves that are fleeing north or already in the north and bring them back south
What is the law in WI about returning a car?
What is the law for returning a car in wi.
Fugitive Slave Act?
A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was highly unpopular in the North and helped to convert many previously indifferent northerners to antislavery.
By 1804 every state north of Maryland passed what law?
Had provided for the emancipation of slaves.
Which law arroused great opposition and widespread disobedience in the North?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 aroused great opposition and widespread disobedience in the North. This law required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, leading to protests and resistance from abolitionists and free states who opposed the institution of slavery.
Who was the last state to free the slaves?
Mississippi is the last state that freed the slaves in the United States. Mississippi actually did not ratify the law that freed the slaves.
What freed slaves up north before the emancapation proclamation?
Nothing freed the slaves up north. If you were an African American born in the north you were free since the north did not condone slavery. However, if you were an escaped slave coming to the north the southern slave owners had the law behind them to go north and capture the escaped slaves. However some people in the north hid slaves and thus they were never captured Joh9356 --- This is not entirely true. "condoning or not condoning slavery" did not constitute a "law". There were no laws in the Constitution or Bill of Rights banning slavery at the federal level until the ratification of XIII amendment to the U.S. Constitution in Dec of 1865 banning slavery. That is what ultimately freed the slaves. So, prior to the "Emancipation Proclamation"(which was illegal by the way), slavery was still legal in the Northern states.
