That would be true, Grasshopper, in the cases of slaves who actually ran away. It shouldn't surpass understanding that chasing runaway slaves through hill and dale would apply only to.....runaways. So your incisive insight is something of a tautology, and fails to discuss or elucidate relative levels of discontent among the slave population coherently, since it doesn't address at all the slaves who stayed home.
And that changes something?
The relative small numbers of runaways makes the South hunting them down and putting boundies on them somehow more justifiable?
So your incisive insight is something of a tautology, and fails to discuss or elucidate relative levels of discontent among the slave population coherently, since it doesn't address at all the slaves who stayed home.
No, because the vast numbers of the slaves were in the deep South and unable to escape.
Most slaves escaped from border States.
However fear of slaves escaping is why the South became virtually a police state.
I think the only tautalogy is the words freedom and South going together or is that an oxymoron?