They were called fugitives. A fugitive is a runaway slave
Because they can offered a reward for runaway slaves.....Then
A person whose business was catching escaped slaves to return them to their owners was called a "slave catcher."
Over 100,000 slaves made it to the north
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Maroons were runaway slaves from the west indies,north america,central america and south america.These runaway slaves also called maroons lived on mountaintops. Slaves who ran away and set up free communitiesch morons maroons were runaway slaves
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The underground railroad
Major General Benjamin Butler learnt that some of the slaves had run away so he requested for help in finding them. This was during the American Civil war in the early 1861.
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I think you are confused. The act was not to help slaves, but allowed catching slaves. It was called the Fugitive Slave Act. It gave men the freedom to go find run away slaves.
Because they can offered a reward for runaway slaves.....Then
Runaway slaves didn't have code names.
They would hurt the slaves.
A person whose business was catching escaped slaves to return them to their owners was called a "slave catcher."
Bounty hunters used blood hounds to cach runaway slaves. : o
In the 1800s, runaway slaves would be captured by marshals and returned to their owners.