In state fugitive is a person who is fleeing from law and prosecution. Such a person is wanted by the government within that state.
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California was to be admitted as a free state.
It meant a slave ran away.
A Fugitive from the Past was created in 1965.
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pro-slavery part of the Compromise of 1850.
Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.