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In Boston, the runaway slaves had been warned not to talk to any Watchmen or Police Officers, so that they would not get caught and have to be returned to their former masters (Document C). The conflict took a bigger turn when Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed the Fugitive Slave Law...
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He strongly argued that that in 1807 it was punishable with death to enslave a man from Africa, but in 1850 it was punishable with fine and imprisonment to not reenslaving a man on the coast of America (Document D). Most of the northern states seemed very upset with the Fugitive Slave Law...
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