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Thomas Dalton wrote:
Who is trolling here ? Slavery was legal and immoral. My question was about things that were illegal.
The distinction is irrelevant, you can reverse it pretty easily: Since slavery was legal, rescuing someone else's slave and freeing them (a moral act) was illegal (it's theft, basically).
Do you know how many thousands of people were jailed for breaking the law by assisting slaves to escape into freedom? Ever heard of the Underground Railway? That wasn't legal, yet it was right.