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The Fugitive Act

Published on Nov 21, 2016

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The Fugitive Act

By Breasia Laney

The people who was helping out the slaves to become free are .....

the aboutionist

....federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793. One of the frist authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners

Why this Act took place.....

...because slaves ran away from the south to the north to be free

This took place in the United States

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