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Explain why the South demanded a stricter Fugitive Slave Law in the Compromise of 1850?

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They wanted the Fugitive Slave Law to guarantee African Americans the right to testify and also the right to a trial by jury. Other legislators refused and claimed that African Americans were not United States citizens. The Fugitive Slave Law clearly favored the slaveholders.

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