Question

One of these people named “Emperor” Shields Green held a secret meeting at Chambersburg, where he met with John Henry Kagi. A year after the passage of legislation centering on these people, Edward Gorsuch was killed in the Christiana Riot. The notoriety of William and Ellen Craft pushed politicians to pass an act centering on these people. The Supreme Court ruled that Wisconsin had no power to nullify a law named for these people in (*) Ableman v. Booth. Prigg v. Pennsylvania (-5[1])curbed a 1793 act concerning these people. Places named for Levi Coffin and John Rankin assisted these people, one of whom named Henry Box Brown mailed himself (10[1]-5[1])from Virginia to Pennsylvania. (10[2])An act included as part of the Compromise of 1850 is named after, for 10 points, what people assisted by ■END■

ANSWER: fugitive slaves [or escaped slaves; or former slaves; or runaway slaves; or passengers on the Underground Railroad; prompt on slaves]
<Noah Sheidlower, American History>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Joe TerreyEdinburghFour Neg Omelette80-5
Oliver HargraveBetrayed by Rita IzzatdustOld London Town107-5
Daoud JacksonBroken HeartsTabearnacle10710
George CharlsonScottish, Irish, Both or Neither3HK1MM11110
Thomas Hart10 Negs that Shook the QuizFoucault's Penndulum11110
Ben BeardsleyOld London TownBetrayed by Rita Izzatdust13710
Ali IzzatdustFour Neg OmeletteEdinburgh13710

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%33%107.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y771%14%57%94.40
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%0%100%106.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%108.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%0%40%120.60
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%25%25%104.75
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y367%0%67%118.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y1100%0%100%132.00