Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law

Caption: The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." In this compromise, the antislavery advocates gained the admission of California as a free state, and the prohibition of slave-trading in the District of Columbia.The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 that gave slave owners the right to enter another state and recapture runaway slaves who had previously belonged to them.
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