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When slavery was abolished in the Northern states, was the 1793 law loosely enforced?

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As slavery was abolished in the Northern states, the 1793 law was loosely enforced, to the great irritation of the South, and as abolitionist sentiment developed, organized efforts to circumvent the law took form in the Underground Railroad .

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