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Fugitive Slave Acts - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) The Fugitive Slave Acts were statutes, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1793 and 1850, that provided for the capture and return of escaped slaves to their owners. These laws applied even if an escaped slave was captured in a free state or territory.
By 1843, several hundred slaves a year were successfully escaping to the North, making slavery an unstable institution in the border states. The earlier Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a Federal law which was written with the intent to enforce Article 4, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of runaway slaves. It sought to force the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters.