Sentences with phrase «chamba slave catchers»

Eliza is alone; her brother Ben is missing; and her mother, Leah, was taken along the way by slave catchers.

She remembers the day her childhood ended, when slave catchers came «whipping the air and the ground and we were like deer whipped into the smaller and smaller circle of our fear.»

When Stephen brings Charlotte into Mammoth Cave for privacy as he teaches her to read, Charlotte finds a safe place to hide runaway slaves from the slave catchers and their dogs.

James worries that Zeus will be a burden on the long trip, but it turns out that Zeus is one special dog one who will sniff out slave catchers, fight off other dogs and even pull his boy out of a river.

And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.

With winter on her heels, Judge had to find shelter and work, elude slave catchers and forget about the family she left behind.

I'd never thought of slave catchers reaching outside of slave states to round up escaped slaves.

From the New York Times - bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page - turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.

What is even more difficult for me to understand is the psychology of the slavers and the slave catchers.

With a notoriously relentless slave catcher following close behind, Cora endures another terrifying underground journey, arriving in North Carolina, where the corpses of tortured black people hang on the trees along a road whites call the Freedom Trail.

The depiction of the slave catcher's dog in stage re-enactments of UNCLE TOM»S CABIN made him an object of dread to ordinary citizens, and an object of attraction to dog owners who wanted dogs for anti-social purposes.

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Demonstrators near Rikers Island demanded the prison be included on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's list of «symbols of hate» facing possible shutdown or removal because they said a descendant of the complex's namesake was a notorious slave - catcher

And in a truly forced and tedious trope, Jackie Earle Haley plays a sadistic slave - catcher who reappears at critical junctures throughout Nat's life: attempting to kill his father when Nat is a boy; raping and beating Cherry many years later; and, still later, engaging in a counterrevolutionary hand - to - hand struggle to the death with Nat himself.

I would think she was aware of... - elizabethk How do you respond to the slave - catcher, Ridgeway?