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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...
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    A slave catcher (in Portuguese Capitão do mato) was a person employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. Slave catchers were active...
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    the role of slave patrols/catchers and changed the war. Another form of help for slaves was the Underground Railroad, which aided slaves in their escape...
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    Fontaine H. Pettis (category Slave catchers)
    newspapers. He is classed by most historians of slavery as a Northern slave catcher or "slave taker" even though he boasted of being a native of Virginia. He...
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    Retrieved August 8, 2021. Campbell, Stanley W (1970). The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850–1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...
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    Fugitive Slave Law; ostensibly, the compromise addressed regional problems by compelling officials of free states to assist slave catchers, granting...
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    nominee. Trujillo is best known for playing Zero Wolf, a ruthless Mayan slave catcher and the main antagonist of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (2006), and for playing...
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    or slaves or they found themselves repeatedly traded, often across great distances” (Kars 2020, p. 45)"Amerindians agreed to act as slave catchers and...
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  • Jesse Luken as Smoke, a slave catcher in Patty Cannon's gang. (season 2) Cullen Moss as Jack, a less competent slave catcher in Patty Cannon's gang. (season...
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    A slave name is the personal name given by others to an enslaved person, or a name inherited from enslaved ancestors. In Rome, slaves were given a single...
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