Which statement summarizes the Enslaved Persons Clause?
Enslaved persons who escape must be given constitutional rights.
Enslaved persons who escape must be given equal protection.
Enslaved persons who escape must be returned to their home states.
Enslaved persons who escape must be granted their freedom.
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Option C is the right answer.
The Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution of the United States is known as the Slave Clause. This clause appears under the Article IV of the Constitution. This clause states that if a person who is regarded for service, (generally slaves) if flees from his state to the another, should be returned to the master in the state from which that slave escaped.
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Enslaved persons who escape must be returned to their home states statement summarizes the Enslaved Persons Clause.
Under this clause if a person is held to labor or serve in one state but escape into another state to get away with the services, he will be discharged from such services.
Yet he will be delivered to the party for whom his work is due.
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