Fugitive Slave Act
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Granted, there was a law named Fugitive Slave Act approved in 1850, which declared that all runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners, no matter if they escaped to a free estate.
However, this law wasn’t always enforced, and Missourian slave owners knew this. So they tried, by all means, to keep Kansas from becoming a free state.
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