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It was one of the concessions to the South, in exchange for allowing California to enter the union as a free state.

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The Fugitive Slave Law was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, a series of laws intended to defuse tensions between free and slave states. It required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, even in states where slavery was illegal, causing widespread controversy and resistance in the North.

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