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How did abolitionists react to the fugitive slave act?

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Some abolitionists organized clandestine resistance groups and built complex networks of safe houses to aid enslaved people in their escape to the North. Refusing to be complicit in the institution of slavery, most Northern states intentionally neglected to enforce the law.

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