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The Fugitive Slave Law
With her brother and son gone west and the newly passed Fugitive Slave Law making the North less safe, Jacobs describes being sheltered briefly at the country home of a sympathetic senator while Dr. Flint's efforts to find her continue.
Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850Brother William and Benjamin's departure for CaliforniaShelter arranged at a senator's country homeContinued risk even in the North