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Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters
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This A&E Special depicts the system of slave policing in America - enforced by militias, armed vigilante slave patrols, paid slave catchers, and federal law - and how escaped slaves and their suppo...
This A&E Special depicts the system of slave policing in America - enforced by militias, armed vigilante slave patrols, paid slave catchers, and federal law - and how escaped slaves and their supporters continued to struggle against overwhelming odds...and sometimes won.
Details
- Creator
- A&E Television Networks, LLC
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (91 min.)) : sound, color
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn878699964
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 02, 2010.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Closed-captioned.
- Slave Hunt (2:01) -- Slave Labor Camps (2:00) -- Racial Police Force (2:20) -- Caribbean Slave Rebellions (2:04) -- Stono Rebellion Begins (3:02) -- Stono Rebellion Crushed (2:29) -- Aftermath of Stono Rebellion (4:38) -- Racial Policing in Southern States (2:09) -- Power of Slave Patrols (2:00) -- Cat and Mouse Ritual (2:15) -- Salve Patrols Under Siege (1:52) -- Demand for Freedom (2:28) -- Slave Patrols in War Time (2:13) -- Slave Revolts in Southern States (2:07) -- Unsuccessful Struggle for Freedom (2:04) -- Business of Slave Catching (2:18) -- Slave Hunting Dogs (3:17) -- Walker's Appeal and Underground Communication (3:24) -- Powerful Information for Slaves (1:54) -- Military Support for Slave Holders (2:35) -- Vigilante Slave Patrols (3:01) -- Increasing Number of Runaway Slaves (2:25) -- Continued Search for Freedom (2:13) -- Slave Catcher Techniques (2:59) -- Slave Catcher Reward (2:03) -- Northern Slave Catchers (2:45) -- Communities Divided Over Slavery (2:07) -- Power of American Slave Holders (2:03) -- Slave Escape Success Story (2:13) -- Anti Slavery Activism (3:42) -- Freedom from the South (2:45) -- Shortage of Man Power (2:02) -- Opportunity for Freedom Not Revenge (2:52) -- End of Slavery in America (2:00) -- New System of Racial Control (2:06) -- Continued Racial Oppression (3:44) -- Credits: Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters (0:29)