[nolu chan]

[jsuati #202] That "respect and affection" by the Slavers was combined with a strict police control over the slaves complete with the hiring of scumbags to retrieve runaways.

It happened in the best of families, too.

Thomas Jefferson
The Virginia Gazette,
Williamsburg, September 14, 1769.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Jefferson never advertised for the return of the two Hemings slaves who absconded. Wonder why?