The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
Read more about Fugitive Slave Laws: Pre-colonial and Colonial Eras, 1785 Attempt, Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, Civil War-era Legal Status of Fugitive Slaves
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“Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Henry More (1614–1687)
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