The new Fugitive Slave Act outraged abolitionists because it:
A) offered a strong temptation to kidnap free blacks in northern "free" states.
B) required the licensing of slave catchers.
C) guaranteed fugitive slaves a jury trial.
D) allowed northern states to become slave states.
E) reintroduced the legal international slave trade.
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