The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture  and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. ... to seize  and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone  who ... Among others, New York passed a 1705 measure designed to prevent  runaways ...
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States  Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between ...
08/06/1850: Fillmore supports Compromise of 1850 ... (1) Texas be paid to  abandon claims to part of New Mexico and (2) that the Wilmot Proviso, ...  Southerners and their allies in Congress designed the Fugitive Slave Law to end  Northern ... anywhere in the United States had to be returned to their masters if  new federally ...
In 1820 he had resolved a fiery debate over the spread of slavery with his  Missouri ... Or maybe the inhabitants should be allowed to choose for themselves ? ... Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be  organized ... For Harriet Jacobs, a fugitive living in New York, passage of the law  was "the ...
Finally, and most controversially, a Fugitive Slave Law was passed, requiring  northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners under penalty of law.
Says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico "and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners."