To: Non-Sequitur
NOT my figures! the authors. nonetheless you are, for once, CORRECT!
To: stand watie
So why the need for the Fugitive Slave Act as part of the Compromise of 1850? Either the southern political leadership was making a mountain out of a mole hill or the figures you quoted underestimated the true scope of the runaway slave problem.
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