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What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?

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requires a "person held to service or labor" who flees to another state to be returned to his or her master in the state from which that person escaped

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The Fugitive Slave Clause of the United States Constitution, also known as either the Slave Clause or the Fugitives From Labor Clause.