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The Fugitive Slave Act gave states the authority to issue a warrant of removal for any black person they thought was an escaped slave. It made it a crime to help a runaway slave. In addition, slave hunters made a good side living abducting free black people, accusing them of being slaves and taking them south to be sold into slavery.

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When the Fugitive Slave Act was put into law, it angered the Abolitionist Movement. They saw this as a bad compromise and once again displayed to them the power of the slave owner conspiracy to keep slavery a part of the South that was not going to disappear on its own.

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Q: How did the fugitive slave act affect free and enslaved African Americans?
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