How Did The Underground Railroad Affect Society

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The Underground Railroad caused the proposal of the fugitive slave act which greatly affected the work of William Still. The fugitive act stated slave owners could capture and bring back slaves whom that had escaped, no matter which state they were in, officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate with this law. This affected William as all the people he had just freed, felt as if they were not safe anymore. In result, many former slaves moved to Canada and settled near the US-Canada border because slavery had been abolished in Canada for many years. Entire neighbourhoods and communities of former slaves moved to as the risk of staying and getting captured was very prominent. Additionally, many slave owners would wait near the Canadian