Part b: how does this compare to the penalties an escaped slave faces?

a - this fine, while considerable, dwindles in comparison to the life of enslavement the fugitive must return to.
b - this fine is the equivalent of a man working towards his freedom, and thus is equivalent to the fugitive’s return to slavery.
c - the arrest and life in prison one would face for an escaped slave is comparable to the lifetime of slavery the fugitive slave faces upon return.
d - both the fugitive and those trying to aid him or her would be subject to the slaveholder’s control and whatever he asked for in recompense.