Which of the following best explains why many escaped enslaved people went to Canada in the 1850s?

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed enslavers and bounty hunters to seize escaped enslaved people even in free states and return them to slavery. Canada was outside the reach of U.S. law and did not enforce that act, so people who crossed the border were safer from recapture. Therefore, the best choice is “Canada did not enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.”

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