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Fugitive Slave Acts

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Federal laws that required the return of enslaved people who had escaped to free states or territories, denying protection to formerly enslaved people even in the North.

AP course connection

Topic 2.20: 2.20 Race to the Promised Land: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad

Unit 2

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