"In the cotton country of SW Mississippi, 31 year old B.B. Boiken, in 1856, who lived on another nman's plantation, told Census takers that he was a full time Negro catcher. A "sophisticated system developed to assist slaveholders in recovery of their "property", it included, slave catchers, patrols, traders, SHERRIFFS, constables, jailers, justices of the peace JUDGES, and other state and local officals"
{- Runnaway Slaves, by John Hope Franklin } It sounds like the current justice system to me!
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