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There was the old Fugitive Slave Law, dating from about 1790, which had fallen into disuse.

The new Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850. It was launched in a bad, overheated atmosphere. The terms of the Compromise mostly favoured the North, so there had to be a big dramatic gesture to appease the South. It said, in effect: "We can't offer you much chance of new slave-states, but my goodness we'll crack down on those runaways!"

It turned every citizen into an unpaid slave-catcher, obliged to report anyone who looked as though they might be a runaway, on pain of a heavy fine. The best-selling novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against it.

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