Any person arrested as a runaway had almost no legal rights. And any person who helped a slave could be jailed.
the first fugitive slave law was passed in 1793.
The fugitive slave law lasted until 1765 to 1776.
The fugitive slave law required all Americans to turn over any fugitive slave found to law enforcement so they would be sent back to their owners.
In 1657 Virginia passed a fugitive slave law.
Henry Clay's role in the Fugitive Slave Law was to renew the countries slave attitude.
California was to be admitted as a free state.
Fugitive Slave law (ACT)
The Fugitive Slave Law
Northern states passed Personal Liberty laws to counteract the Fugitive Slave Law. These were meant to make the law equitable and to protect the rights of Freedmen and escaped slaves without nullifying the Fugitive Slave Law.
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