slave-catcher

You will come through without the slightest danger -- no slave-catcher will give _you_ a second glance.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

You will come through without the slightest danger -- no slave-catcher will give _you_ a second glance.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

Every "good citizen" found himself, for the first time in the history of mankind, a slave-catcher by law.

Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Various

Shurtleff in arrest, when he exclaimed: "I'll never be a slave-catcher, so help me God!"

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

Yet does this profligate statute, with impious arrogance, command "ALL GOOD CITIZENS" to assist in enforcing it, when required so to do by an official slave-catcher!

Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Various

Sir, the world has never furnished so great a congregation of hypocrites as those that formed the Constitution, if they designed to make it the greatest slaveholder, slave-breeder and slave-catcher on earth.

Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law Before Judge Drummond, Of The United States District Court, Chicago, Ill. John Hossack

Said letter it would seem, had been dropped into the box of the Ledger office, instead of the U.S. box (one of which, was also in the Ledger office), through a mistake, and seeing that it bore the name of a well-known slave-catcher, Alberti, the clerk had a great desire to know its import.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

In those days there was no protection that protected a fugitive slave against the slave-catcher assisted by the United States courts.

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

Is the whole tendency of this argument not to elevate the horrible trade of the slave-catcher to the same high level with the noble office of the missionary?

Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 Jacob D. Green

Sure am I that, if any slave-catcher had entered his domicile with a view to my recapture, Johnson would have shown himself like him of the "stalwart hand."

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various