Slave catcher (Brazil)
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slave-catcher-brazil-237-11101617
title:
Slave catcher (Brazil)
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A slave catcher was a person employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. Slave catchers were active in Brazil, both during the period it was a Portuguese colony and after it became an independent nation. Unlike in North America, indigenous Brazilians occasionally became slave catchers as well. Escaped slaves in Brazil formed quilombos, which slave catchers frequently raided, resulting in most of them becoming abandoned or destroyed. The institution of slave catching in B
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People who tracked down slaves in Brazil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_catcher_(Brazil)
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2023-04-02T21:07:37Z
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