Note 3 — Chapter IX · THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
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As provided in Article IV, Section 2: “No person held to service in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping to another state, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, shall be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due,” supplemented by the statute giving force to its provisions in 1793.