This law authorized local governments to seize and capture escaped slaves and imposed penalties on anyone who aided them.

Jim Crow Laws

The Fugitive Slave Act

The Underground Railroad

The Missouri Compromise

The early democratic-republican party believed that the united states

President nixon's trip to china included apex

Prior to the presence of europeans on the continent, the slave trade in africa a) did not exist in any form. b) was limited to internal trade only. c) included the trans-saharan and indian ocean slave trade. d) was rarely needed due to the lack of an agricultural economy.