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Updated: June 18, 2025
How many white men were victims of this plot to die by the assassin's knife or waiting for the ransom that never came is not a part of this record. It was becoming a common thing to find white men living in a state of quasi-slavery among the islanders, each white held as hostage for the security of the others not escaping.
The courts of the Northwest held that slave-owners whose property could be brought under any of these guarantees might retain that property; and although no court countenanced further importation, itinerant Southerners rich planters traveling in their family carriages, with servants, packs of hunting-dogs, and trains of slaves, their nightly camp-fires lighting up the wilderness where so recently the Indian hunter had held possession occasionally settled in southern Indiana or Illinois and with the connivance of the authorities kept some of their dependents in slavery, or quasi-slavery, for decades.
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