Paul Robeson
Runaway Slave was created in 1991.
Any person arrested as a runaway had almost no legal rights. And any person who helped a slave could be jailed.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 placed a fine of $500 on anyone aiding a runaway slave.
Runaway Slave - 2012 is rated/received certificates of: USA:PG
The cast of The Runaway Slave - 1912 includes: Henry Belmar
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The Fugitive Slave Act (1850) required individuals to turn in any black person suspected of being a runaway slave. This could be done without actual proof or a trial of any kind. It was a panacea of sorts to the Southern slave states, which lost hundreds of runaway slaves a year.
They were called fugitives. A fugitive is a runaway slave
Runaway slaves didn't have code names.
A slave who escaped was referred to as a fugitive or runaway slave.
Sojourner Truth was a runaway slave who became a women's rights and abolitionist activist. She was the first black woman to successfully sue a white slave owner for the freedom of her child.