why did the new fugitive slave act became controversy
The Fugitive Slave Act provided southern slaveholders with authorized weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the North (or fugitive slaves) and helped to change many uni â¦ nterested northerners to anti-slavery.It was also a piece of the collection of Laws referred to as the  Compromise of 1850.he fugitive slave act allowed southern slave holders to reclaim escaped slaves who had made their way to freedom in the northern states.