Sentences with phrase «slave catchers»

The phrase "slave catchers" refers to people who were hired or appointed to capture and return enslaved individuals who had escaped from their owners. Full definition
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.
Nicolas Argenti traces the chilling flight of people in the Northwest Province in 1997 to the flight of their ancestors during slave raids; he writes, «The violence of the paramilitary forces was so acute on this occasion that the population of Oku was forced to flee into the surrounding forest, retracing the steps of their ancestors, who had escaped into the mountains to seek refuge from raiding 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.»
With the help of both Caesar, a bound slave on the run, and Royal, a free black man, Cora slips the chains of the notorious slave catcher, Ridgeway.
With winter on her heels, Judge had to find shelter and work, elude slave catchers and forget about the family she left behind.
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.
And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.
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.
What is even more difficult for me to understand is the psychology of the slavers and the slave catchers.
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