had invested. This common feeling amongst southerners labeled slaves as merely property instead of living, breathing, human beings. Wealthy slave owners had always hired men to kidnap and return runaways but, after the compromise this threat was more present then ever. There was really no justice for the men and women taken by the slave catchers due to the fact that any black person could be snatched up. Chances were they would be taken regardless of whether they were the particular slave the men were after. These actions would soon to prove to be another aspect of slavery which further socially
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