Fugitive Slave Acts

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Introduction
An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Service of Their Masters
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
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- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10

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Date	1793 • 1850

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