<span>Australia became an independent nation on </span>1 January 1901 when the
British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six Australian colonies to become
autonomous and self-governing as part of the Commonwealth of Australia which
was then established as a constitutional monarchy.
It meant that Northerners in free states were obligated, regardless of their feelings towards slavery, to turn escaped slaves who had made it North back over to their Southern masters.
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