Methods were used by northerners to resist the capture of slaves

The only methods that could be used by the northerners was arguing the fugitive slave act was unconstitutional and moving slaves to Canada so they couldn't be taken back. 

The  pan-african movement  was an "emotional, cultural, psychological and ideological  movement  that began among the  african  dispora in the western hemisphere, for a closer  purpose, so that  african  people could feel secure, attain political, economic as well as psychological power visa vis other races or world regions" .