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“Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law,” New York, 1850.
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The print shows a group of four black men–possibly freedmen–ambushed by a posse of six armed whites in a cornfield.

Credit: Library of Congress

This print captures the anger that abolitionists felt after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the fear felt by both the escaped slaves who had fled to the North and the free blacks who now feared for their safety.

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