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What was the legal status of an enslaved person who escaped into the northwest territory
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What was the legal status of an enslaved person who escaped into the northwest territory

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It depends what time period...there was a huge court case (dredscott vs. Sanford) that made slaves illegal even if they were escaped and in safe territory
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