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.
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.
The Fugitive Slave Law
Under the Fugitive Slave Law, it was easy to make a free black a slave because the law required individuals to cooperate in capturing and returning alleged fugitive slaves, often leading to false accusations and kidnappings of free black individuals who were then wrongfully enslaved. The law had very limited due process protections for alleged fugitive slaves, making it easier for slaveowners to exploit the system and claim free black individuals as their property.
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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In 1657 Virginia passed a fugitive slave law.
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No, it didn't. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed before the publication of the novel.