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How did fugitive slave laws increase abolitionist activity in the Underground Railroad?

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The passage of more stringent fugitive slave laws in 1850 increased abolitionist activity on the Underground Railroad . Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe , became an effective piece of abolitionist propaganda, and the Kansas question further aroused both North and South. The culminating act of extreme abolitionism occurred in the raid of John Brown on Harpers Ferry. After the opening of the Civil War insistent abolitionist demands for immediate freeing of the slaves, supported by radical Republicans in Congress, pushed President Lincoln in his decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation .

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