The first federal Fugitive Slave Act created procedures to seize and return people accused of escaping slavery. It denied alleged fugitives a jury trial and punished those who aided them. Black communities and antislavery networks resisted enforcement, demonstrating that federal law actively supported slaveholders’ power across state borders.
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