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The Bloodhound Bill: How Bounty Hunters and Dogs Tracked Escaping Slaves
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The Bloodhound Bill allowed slave patrollers and bounty hunters to track down escaped slaves and return them to their masters, even if they had managed to escape to a free state. Author Solomon Northrup documented the brutality of this practice in his memoir 12 Years a Slave.

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