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The Slave Catchers

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The complicated, brutal, yet perfectly legal business of capturing runaway slaves who managed to make their way to freedom in Pennsylvania in 1849.

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Ric Cottom
Ric Cottom, host of "Your Maryland," came to Baltimore more than four decades ago and never left. Formerly the editor and publisher at the Maryland Historical Society, he now runs the Chesapeake Book Company, publishing Chesapeake regional history, biography, and environmental studies.
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