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The FugitiveSlaveLaw or FugitiveSlave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding...
The fugitiveslavelaws 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 or into a public...
FugitiveSlaveLaws, acts passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850, intended to facilitate the recapture and extradition of runaway slaves and to commit the federal government to the legitimacy of holding property in slaves.
As slavery was abolished in the Northern states, the 1793 law was loosely enforced, to the great irritation of the South, and as abolitionist sentiment developed, organized efforts to circumvent the law took form in the Underground Railroad.
As a concession to the South a second and more rigorous fugitiveslavelaw was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850.
New personal-liberty laws contradicting the legislation of 1850 (and described, with some reason, by Southerners as equivalent to South Carolina's notorious ordinance of nullification) were passed in most of the Northern states.
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