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Why did some americans believe the fugitive slave act was unfair
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Why did some americans believe the fugitive slave act was unfair

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The main reason why many Americans believed the fugitive slave act was unfair is because it meant that if a slave escaped to free territory, he or she was still to be treated as a slave, which greatly upset abolitionists in the North.
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