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Why did the southerners have the right to find runaway slaves and bring them back to slave states?

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Why did the southerners have the right to find runaway slaves and bring them back to slave states?

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Slaves were considered property in the same manner as cattle. The free states were obligated to honor the slave states’ laws concerning retrieval of property under the policy of States Rights. The Emancipation Proclamation made the practice of slavery illegal in all states, and the legal practice ended.