more than meets the eye

I've noticed something preety cool! i've noticed that there are a lot of people that acturally have the sentiment to feel bad for the helpless slaves of that time. It it far more then they are actural number that were given. In our next selection of reading, we established that the U.S had just passed a law stating that helping fugitive slaves is forbiden and will be seveerly punished if caught. Now let's think about it logically. What is the purpose of passing a law in general? it is to prevent large quantity of people from acting in a way that is thought unlawful in term of that specific government. If there wern't alot of people that were caught helping the slaves, the establishment of this law would be very low. From the context clue, we are able to conclude that there is a lot of white people that will risk their wellbeing by proving shelter to the slaves.