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The fugitive slave clause was another compromise the Framers of the Constitution made to ensure that the Southern states would ratify the Constitution. This clause required that enslaved people who escaped be returned to the person who claimed them. This applied even to states where slavery would be outlawed, which would later stoke the outrage of abolitionists and raise tension between the North and the South.

60-Second Civics, Episode 4252: February 9, 2021

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Images: Slide 1: Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora; Slide 2: Center for Civic Education and Canva; Slides 3-7: Slavery Images; Slides 8 and 9: Center for Civic Education and Canva