This controversial law allowed slave-hunters to seize alleged fugitive slaves without due process of law and prohibited anyone from aiding escaped fugitives or obstructing their recovery. Because it was often presumed that a black person was a slave, the law threatened the safety of all blacks... Text from an online exhibit describing the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850- Library of Congress What was one result of the law described above? A Religious groups left the abolitionist movement to avoid political controversy. B Abolitionists societies began to focus their efforts on promoting women's suffrage C Northerners who believed the law was unfair began to support the abolitionist movement. D Southerners used the law to challenge the constitutionality of abolitionist goals.

The passing of the law was a used by abolitionists to reinforce their message. It stirred controversy in the North because enforcing the law could make anybody an accomplice of slavery and its horrors. It also inspired a gifted storyteller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, to write the famous novel Uncle Tom´s Cabin.

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