“Three sailors on an oceangoing freighter were cast adrift in a life raft after their ship sank during a storm in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship went down so suddenly that
there was no time to send out an SOS. As far as the three sailors knew, they were the
only survivors. They had no food or water in the raft. And they had no fishing gear or
other equipment that might be used to get food from the ocean."
1. Do laws apply in this situation? If so, which ones?

Which of the following statements about the fugitive slave act of 1850 is not accurate. a. marshals who refused to arrest a suspected fugitive could be fined $1,000. b. slave owners had to present evidence that an african american in the north was a fugitive slave. c. any person who provided food or shelter to a fugitive slave could be find $1000 and placed in jail for six months. d. it required all federal marshals to arrest any african-american suspected of being a runaway slave.