Depends on which slave. There was Harriet Tubman, and a lot of other different slaves that escaped on the Underground Railroad. Which was not actually a railroad, it was a series of safe houses that fed, clothed, and hid slaves. No matter what the cost.
Fredrick Dugles
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.
George Latimer - escaped slave - died in 1896.
Harriet Tubman was the escaped slave who helped 300 slaves to go north.
he was a slave he just escaped
Fredrick Dugles
A slave who escaped was referred to as a fugitive or runaway slave.
The Fugitive Slave Act
The "Fugitive Slave Act" of 1854.
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.
She helped lead escaped slave flee to the north.
dred Scott is African
George Latimer - escaped slave - died in 1896.
It was unpopular in the north because they did not support slavery, and therefore did not want to send escaped slaves back to the south
George Latimer - escaped slave - was born on 1819-07-04.
Harriet Tubman was the escaped slave who helped 300 slaves to go north.
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850. This law was meant to help slave owners capture escaped slaves by making it a crime to help an escaped slave.