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The Fugitive Slave Acts By Frederick Douglass

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The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed the captivity of runaway slaves. The Fugitive Slave Act is a very fair act for the slaves. The slaves were harshly treated by their owners. They were looked at as if they were dogs. When the slaves had a chance of freedom they took it, knowing the difficult challenges that they would have to face. Some made it to freedom, but some didn’t. I feel as if the slaves made it to freedom, then they should stay a free slave. A former slave known as Frederick Douglass wrote a biography about his personal way of living as a slave. “I told him as well as I could, for scarce had strength to speak. He then gave me a savage kick in the side, and told me to get up. I tried to do so, but fell
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