The Fugitive Slave Act denied Black captives jury trials and incentivized northern capture.

Evidence

The Act criminalized abettors of fugitives, provided northerners incentives to capture them, and denied captured Blacks a jury trial, opening the door to mass kidnappings. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 503

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the argument that legal infrastructure, not just prejudice, mechanized racialized oppression — directly applicable to the ‘policy first’ thesis in Stamped.
• XREF: connects to: Free northern Blacks faced kidnapping into slavery despite legal prohibitions — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 499