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How did Anthony Burns play a role in the growing divisions between North and South during the 1850s?


A) Burns was a runaway slave who galvanized northern antislavery sentiment after the Fugitive Slave Law required his legal return to the South.
B) Burns was a northern abolitionist who harbored runaway slaves and intentionally broke the law by not following the Fugitive Slave Law.
C) Burns was a runaway slave who lectured on behalf of freedom even though he lived in constant danger of being returned to the South as a slave under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law.
D) Burns was a slave catcher who, by the legal authority of the Fugitive Slave Law, captured free northern African Americans, thus inciting an antislavery riot in Boston.

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