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The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made remaining in the United States too dangerous for freedom seekers. The law gave slaveholders the right to travel into northern states and seize people who had escaped and return them to lives of slavery. So Harriet Tubman led the people she helped to Canada instead. She also resided in St. Catharines, Ontario, for a while. In 1859, William H. Seward, an abolitionist and a U.S. senator, sold a portion of land to Tubman in his hometown of Auburn,
