The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Violation of the Fugitive Slave Act was often open and organized.

Booth had been indicted under the federal Fugitive Slave Act.

The Fugitive Slave Act still stood, but only federal agents could enforce it.

Not bad for someone whose great-grand-father was author of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

The federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased the penalties for such activism.

The primary issue was whether the Fugitive Slave Act was constitutional.

The Fugitive Slave Act brought a defiant response from abolitionists.

Perhaps the worst bill passed by Congress is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

In the abstract, he'd said, the Fugitive Slave Act was tolerable to some people.

The Fugitive Slave Act was essential to meet Southern demands.

The number of blacks actually captured and sent south under the Fugitive Slave Act was relatively small, perhaps three hundred.

The significance of the case regards whether the Fugitive Slave Act (1793) was constitutional or not.

In the United States, the Fugitive Slave Act is passed.

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required individuals to return runaway slaves to their owners.

"Most dangerous piece of legislation ever" really does suggest that it's worse than, say, the Fugitive Slave Act.

He was captured under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and returned to Georgia.

The Fugitive Slave Act returned a number of slaves to western Virginia.

Many Northern states wanted to circumvent the Fugitive Slave Act.

As such, the spirit and letter of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was completely abandoned.

As free states sought to undermine the federal law, the even more severe Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was enacted.

The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act meant that free blacks could be seized for the flimsiest reason.

Returning a slave was not only legal, but required at the time under the Fugitive Slave Act.

They don’t want a modern-day Fugitive Slave Act.

That the Fugitive Slave Act must be disobeyed.