It was a law which was passed which provided southern slaveholder to capture slaves who would escape.
The Berlin Act was a work product of the Berlin Conference of 1884 wherein Otto Von Bismarck entered Germany into the mix for the colonization of Africa.
The Berlin Act marks the beginning of the true formal scramble for Africa as European Nations fought for land on the African continent.
He was told to Read, read in the name of god who created humans from a seed. It is significant because that is the VERY first revelation of him to be a prophet.
The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick