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Such laws were passed on account of some serious brothers who just were not having it. SLAVE CODE #1 for the day Southern slave codes protected the owners of bondsmen who attempted to abscond by requiring officers to assist in their recapture and by giving all white men power to arrest them. Every state required the owner of a fugitive slave to compensate the captor for his trouble. Because,of the magnItude of the problem, Kentucky obligated masters to pay a reward of one hundred dollars for runaways taken in a State where slavery is not tolerated by law. In an effort to induce the return of fugitives escaping into Mexico, Texas promised a reward of one-third the value of a slave who fled beyond the slave territories of the United States."
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:03:47 +0000

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