In my opinion, section four, five, six, and eight of the Fugitive Slave Act are the most important provisions of this law. Firstly, the fourth section is the most important due to its stating the fact that all escaped or runaway slaves must be returned to the slave state from which they originated, which was the basis for the entire Fugitive Slave Act. Secondly, the fifth sections importance lies in the way it forces law-abiding citizens and or gendarme to comply and help enforce the Fugitive Slave Act law by forcing all mentioned to conform to the Act. Finally, the sixth section is important to the Act because it allows for the retrieval of a runaway slave by his or her owner from a free state as long as the owner has proof of their ownership
