Why did some americans believe the fugitive slave act was unfair

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Krzysztof Madej · Answer 1 · 2016-09-27T12:09:30+0000

The main reason why many Americans believed the fugitive slave act was unfair is because it meant that if a slave escaped to free territory, he or she was still to be treated as a slave, which greatly upset abolitionists in the North.

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