Posted by Paul Hyett on 11/07/06 18:45

In rec.video.dvd.tech on Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Citizen Bob wrote :
>On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:15:23 GMT, Paul Hyett
><pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>In the 1850s juries exonerated Northerners who aided runaway slaves.
>
>>Whereas 'PTravel' would have had them on the end of a rope...
>
>The Fugitive Slave Act made it "illegal" to aid an escaped slave.

Why was that law even passed, when the North was supposed to be
anti-slavery?
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Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

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