The January 20 issue continued to identify local figures involved in recapture and defended its abolitionist orientation. In a society where enslavers and their agents used law, police, and private force to return people to bondage, such naming worked as counter-surveillance. The paper’s claims need to be read as intervention in an active political struggle.
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How can the paper’s naming of slave catchers be understood?
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The newspaper sought to make recapture agents visible and accountable.
Publicly naming recapture agents showed that slave-catching had already disappeared.
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The paper’s naming campaign responded to an active system of recapture.