page_title: Slave catcher
hierarchical_section_title: Slave catcher
caption_attribution_description: English: Runaway slave advertisement.
context_page_description: Slave catchers were people who returned escaped slaves to their owners in the United States before slavery was abolished at the end of the American Civil War.
context_section_description: Slave catchers were people who returned escaped slaves to their owners in the United States before slavery was abolished at the end of the American Civil War.
caption: Advertisement of a reward for recapture of a fugitive slave