As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake.
Churchill places the Underground Railroad in the context of a Geography of violence, a shifting landscape in which clashing norms of Violence shaped the activities of slave catchers and the fugitives and abolitionists who defi.
Historian Robert H.
The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the North set off violent confrontations that left participants and local residents enraged and embittered.
As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake