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the South could find safe passage

to freedom up North. A lot of the

slaves that followed these routes the

freedom were those who boarded

the North states such as Kentucky,

Virginia and Maryland. A lot of

these routes would stretch out

Northward of up to Ohio, Indiana, which allows local governments to

Iowa, Pennsylvania, and even into extradite escaped slaves from within

the New England’s. As numbers the borders of a free states and

of escapees increased new laws bring them back to their point of

were put in place to recapture these origin. More harsh laws were put in

runaway slaves. The Fugitive Slave place with the Fugitive Slave Act of

Acts, was the first act put in place 1850 which enforced these laws and