30% black....This is all about doing what the Dems do best...getting out the vote. Expect to hear reparations from coast to coast from here on in. Have already heard several people pushing this....particularly women.
“reparations”
Slavery was a 99.9% private matter.
If a chattel ran off, a newspaper ad was printed with a reward offer, a private person reported a sighting, a private slave hunter retrieved the chattel and a private person paid the reward.
What about the Fugitive Slave Act? Northerners habitually dodged their obligations to Southern property owners. It was just easier and more reliable to directly snatch the chattel and take the chattel back to the plantation.