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Narrative Essay: The Quilts For Runaway Slaves

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“Hurry up, run, I think I know where they went,” I yelled back to the group following me. I was the leader of a group of slave catchers trying to catch slaves on the Underground railroad “I think I heard them,”called a slave catcher named Tyrone. We were a group of 6 people looking for runaway slaves that are looking to be free. “Not on my watch,” I thought. I had already caught three slaves, but I had not been paid very well. I have been ripped off for the slaves that I had caught because I had not asked for a higher price. We had started to follow the compass north We have heard that the railroad stations have special quilts with a certain pattern on them,and they acted like a secret code (1). I have seen quilts that slave catchers have put up, but they had not caught anything. “There is a house over there,” Tyrone had stated.” Do you want to go and check there” “Yes, but are …show more content…

“That retched girl,”, I growled. We needed to catch any slave before the month was done, or we would be the one hunted by the boss, Anthony Kramer, or Killer Tony. He is the best slave hunter, because he uses his own method on catching slaves, that he won 't tell anyone. If he did, he would kill you, so you don 't want to go near him when he is catching slaves. We slept through the night without any problems. We went to a tavern to drink some rum, and we overheard someone saying that they may have seen the slaves that had gotten away. We were going to try to investigate the situation, and see if we could catch at least one of the slaves to make up for the ones that had gotten away from our grasp. We had talked the the man that had seen the slaves and he said that he had seen the near Jasper, Arizona. We slept at an inn near Jasper, and then we started to head north. We had split up though the forest to search faster. We had been searching the forest going north and then we saw one. He was running barefoot away from us into the denser part of the forest that we couldn 't see

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