Trustworthy estimates fixed the number of runaways in the free States at fifteen thousand, and a southern United States senator bitterly complained that only four or five had been recaptured since the law's enactment.
Alexander provides estimates on the number of runaways in the free states and the challenges of recapturing them.
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