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Article IV, Section 2: States and Fugitives

Fugitives who flee from one state to another will be returned to the state where the alleged crime occurred on the request of that state's governor. Fugitive slaves will not be made free by fleeing to a free state.

The later Fugitive Slave Act was a law specifically forcing citizens of free states to assist in the capture of fugitive slaves.

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