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Which statement summarizes the Enslaved Persons Clause?

Enslaved persons who escape must be given constitutional rights.
Enslaved persons who escape must be given equal protection.
Enslaved persons who escape will be seized and returned to their enslaver.
Enslaved persons who escape to a free state will be granted their freedom.

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Enslaved persons who escape will be seized and returned to their enslaver.

(That clause — the Fugitive Slave Clause in Article IV — required escaped enslaved people be returned to the person who claimed them.)