The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of laws that was unequal, but yet legal in the United States. During the year of 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act certified the governments to take hold of the slaves and bring them back to their owners. The Fugitive Slave Act was supposed to help the slaves, but the northern states did not want that to happen. There was a lot of criticism about the laws and the American Civil War. These were passed all to have an attempt to pass the Fugitive Slave Law: 1850 Law. It was also referred to as the Compromise of 1850.
There was a case that interfered with the Fugitive Slave Act, the Prigg vs. Pennsylvania. These will all be discussed in this report dealing with the Fugitive Slave Laws. Later on in the years, slave laws were enforced in some of the 13 original colonies. There were different slave laws that had to be enforced and the Northerners did not want to have it that way. There were some laws that occurred to be similar in the North and the South. These laws applied to Native American slaves and white indentured servants.
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They were mainly criticized by the northern states. They refused to consider this law. They felt that if they could catch a slave, they would their property, and if they were free slaves. They would become a fugitive slave. Even when the law was put into place, they refuse to enforce the law. They believed that the slaves would help them out in the long run and that they would be of great service. The Fugitive Slave Acts were the most debated laws in the early 19th century. For this not to happen, Northern states put up special laws before the legislature to prevent them from passing this