---
title: 'Look Out for the Slave-Catchers'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James William Charles Pennington'
date: 1855-03-16
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Slavery'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Amos 5'
- 'Micah 6'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/pennington-1855-look-out-for-the-slave-catchers
---

# Look Out for the Slave-Catchers

1855 Frederick Douglass pieces decry federal injustices against free Black Americans—discriminatory laws, the Fugitive Slave Act, refusal to recognize Haiti—and urge organized political action.

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