This A&E Special depicts the system of slave policing in America - enforced by militias, armed vigilante slave patrols, paid slave catchers, and federal law - and how escaped slaves and their supporters continued to struggle against overwhelming odds...and sometimes won.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 02, 2010. Classroom Video On Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Slave Hunt (2:01) -- Slave Labor Camps (2:00) -- Racial Police Force (2:20) -- Caribbean Slave Rebellions (2:04) -- Stono Rebellion Begins (3:02) -- Stono Rebellion Crushed (2:29) -- Aftermath of Stono Rebellion (4:38) -- Racial Policing in Southern States (2:09) -- Power of Slave Patrols (2:00) -- Cat and Mouse Ritual (2:15) -- Salve Patrols Under Siege (1:52) -- Demand for Freedom (2:28) -- Slave Patrols in War Time (2:13) -- Slave Revolts in Southern States (2:07) -- Unsuccessful Struggle for Freedom (2:04) -- Business of Slave Catching (2:18) -- Slave Hunting Dogs (3:17) -- Walker's Appeal and Underground Communication (3:24) -- Powerful Information for Slaves (1:54) -- Military Support for Slave Holders (2:35) -- Vigilante Slave Patrols (3:01) -- Increasing Number of Runaway Slaves (2:25) -- Continued Search for Freedom (2:13) -- Slave Catcher Techniques (2:59) -- Slave Catcher Reward (2:03) -- Northern Slave Catchers (2:45) -- Communities Divided Over Slavery (2:07) -- Power of American Slave Holders (2:03) -- Slave Escape Success Story (2:13) -- Anti Slavery Activism (3:42) -- Freedom from the South (2:45) -- Shortage of Man Power (2:02) -- Opportunity for Freedom Not Revenge (2:52) -- End of Slavery in America (2:00) -- New System of Racial Control (2:06) -- Continued Racial Oppression (3:44) -- Credits: Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters (0:29)