John Bathan Vashon was a seaman and abolitionist, he was active in the anti-slavery movement. He often purchased the freedom of blacks who were being held by slave catchers. Slave catchers earned a small profit by kidnapping blacks in the North and enslaving them, especially after the original Fugitive Slave Law of 1792 was revised. […]

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