Woman Realizes That Her House Is Linked To A Dark Past Regarding The U.S. History

By Nidhi

This act was passed in 1793, by this act the local government had all the right to apprehend and extradite escaped slaves back to their point of origin and punish those who helped them in escaping. This act was so harsh in northern states that slaves on run from southern states always made sure that they don’t lend in northern states by chance.
For slaves, Canada was just heaven where they were allowed to live wherever they wanted, allowed them to sit in juries, allowed admission in public offices and more.