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  The Abolitionists | Clip

  Garrison Gets Attacked

  In October 1835, William Lloyd Garrison was attacked by an anti-abolitionist mob in Boston.

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  The Abolitionists | Clip

  The Fugitive Slave Act

  The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal.

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  The Abolitionists | Clip

  The Personal Liberty Act

  George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release led Massachusetts to declare that state officials could not take part in the recapture of a fugitive slave.