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A slave catcher is a person employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. The first slave catchers in the Americas were active in European colonies in the West Indies during the sixteenth century.
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Slave catcher Slave patrols —also known as patrollers ,...
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the...
- Slave patrol
Slave catcher Slave patrols —also known as patrollers , patterrollers , pattyrollers or paddy rollers [1] —were organized groups of armed men who monitored and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states .
- law enforcement or military (1704–1865)
- U.S. southern states
- patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers, paddy rollers, sheriff
- slave catcher
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The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy. It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the enslaver and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate. [2]
- An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled "An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters", approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
When the Slave-Catcher Came to Town. Oberlin, Ohio, was an abolitionist stronghold, but not impermeable. Daniel J. Sharfstein. HUMANITIES, September/October 2011, Volume 32, Number 5. Photo caption.
Sep 25, 2022 · For decades, slave catchers, as well as slaveholders and professional kidnappers had prowled the streets of the city, assaulting Black Americans by any means to enslave them.
Nov 23, 2011 · U.S. The Freedman’s Story. An escaped slave recalls his violent showdown with slave-catchers. By William Parker. The Civil War Issue. A reward poster from Monroe County, Missouri, dating from...
The Struggle for Justice. 16-year-old freedom seeker in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is violently “arrested” in a home invasion. Citizens locate the girl, apparently through anti-kidnapping contacts in Baltimore. Money is raised and her freedom is purchased.
