This will be the beginning information on slavery to the North America continent.

The Fugitive Slave Act was implemented to capture and return runaway slave to their master/owners. This law allowed white citizens to hunt runaway slave even into the free northern states. Many of the black people captured was free born black people. These bounty hunters kidnaped healthy young black men and black woman which was then transfer to the south to replace runaway slaves. This is also known as Reverse Underground Railroad. Some of us may know this by a movie name 12 Years of slave. The attitude in some law enforcement toward Black American today is similar to the bounty hunters of the Fugitive Slave Act Enforcement.

Henry Scott was a runaway slave later to later return to the south. He return during the civil war as a spy for the Union Army he infiltrated the confederate army gatering intel while pretending to be a slave. His messages were written in code such as animal's drawing. The coded in animal tree scratches and symbols. If captured the white confederate soldier would see him as illeterate or too dumd to understood that which is written and the drawing on the paper. Though after all he was just a slave.

Henry Brown was a slave that had himself mailed to freedom in a in a wooden box crate. He later became an entertainer and activist about slavery. However fear of being captured and return due to that he gave up being out spoken on slavery because of the Fugitive Slave Law.

He was the first African American to practice before the U.S. Supreme court . The following day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the the thirteeth Amendment 1st of February 1865. He is better known of the statement `Black is beautiful`. He walk the fame of a dentist, doctor, teacher and lawyer also earned a medical degree from American Medical College Philadelphia, Pa.

Just a little information on Black History. In case you forgot, well it is no excuse now you should take pride in your history ..