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Fugitive, or self-emancipated, slaves ran away in every American colony and state from the beginning of bondage until the Civil War ended slavery forever. Indeed, while fugitive slaves of the ...
From: Fugitive Slaves in Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass »
Subjects: United States History — Law.
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