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Slave catcher

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one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master.

See also: Slave



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Some of the Weems family took their freedom into their own hands, and dared to escape and evade slave catchers rather than wait for rescue; one daughter even learned to dress, walk, and act like a boy as a disguise.
From years of fighting the rendition process under which slave catchers took blacks south from New York, blacks learned the value of the writ of habeas corpus.
Apart from the nonsense of the alleged superiority of one slave to the other--when dogs and gun-wielding slave catchers would be set upon either group equally if they tried to escape--there is quite a bit of "something" in the psyches of some of those African-Americans, and Africans resident in the United States, who say they cannot vote for Obama for one reason or another.
 
 
 
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