Re-captured slaves would be returned to their owners, who might beat or kill them. A common way to keep slaves from running again was "hamstringing", where they would cut the hamstring on the back of the heel, so they couldn't run.
You were most likely whiped severly and beaten and let out into the feilds again and forced to work with possibly being crippled.
being put to jail
The Fugitive Slave Law
The fugitive slave law lasted until 1765 to 1776.
With extreme indignation at being treated like unpaid slave-catchers. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against it.
Probably jail. More controversial was the heavy fine for simply failing to report someone who looked as though they might be a fugitive slave. The public resented being forced at act as unpaid slave-catchers.
on your mom
you would be fined and put in jail
Abolitionists hid fugitive slaves in their homes.
fugitive slave lawsThe Fugitive Act
They didn't like being turned into unpaid slave-catchers.
The fugitive slave law of 1850 meant that any slave that had escaped to the north was at constant risk of being taken back to their masters, unless they made it to Canada were they would be truly free.
Fugitive Slave law (ACT)
the first fugitive slave law was passed in 1793.
California was to be admitted as a free state.
The Fugitive Slave Law
The fugitive slave clause was part of the Articles of Confederation.
The fugitive slave law lasted until 1765 to 1776.
The act was passed in Congress on September 18, 1850.