Which president was a runaway slave whose master posted a reward for and a wanted poster?
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Well he most likely was white, I've learned most slaves were white from this here history board.
President of the United States? President of the University of Georgia? President of Liberia? You might want to qualify your question for clarity. If you are referring to a President of the United States, this should be amusing since it is not true.
I'll bite. Whose biography have you fabricated?
Not sure any sort of clarification exists to overcome the ignorance and lack of historical perspective that some here display. Why did you not say you were not aware of any such president overcoming a total lack of education, his mother selling both he and his brother into bondage as children and the awful sense that he could be discovered and legally delivered back to the master who held he and his brother in involuntary servitude?
But since you asked that president would be Abraham Lincoln's VP who rose to the oval office upon his death. Mr Andrew Johnson from Tennessee. I'll ignore your fabrication slur since you obviously are historically challenged and blissfully naive as to anything of significance occurring prior too, say, 1992? LOL....Surprised you didn't know that since he was a democrat and a radical one at that. One who held strong anti aristocrat feelings toward the wealthy planter classes who dominated southern politics (and why wouldn't he) at the time. Because of his radical hatred of the wealthy he wanted to take severe punitive measures which Lincoln had opposed. Lincoln mostly wanted the country united again and the government solidified and income to the government coming in. He also wanted to deport in as kind a fashion as possible, all or as many of blacks as was possible to Africa (yes your Liberia) or South America. But the reality tempered his (Johnson) natural hatred of the class of people who had once held him in bondage. But yes he was once held in bondage to a Mr James Selby, ran away and had a $10. reward offered for his return and a wanted poster put out by this Mr Selby who legally owned him at the time. A holdover from the 17th century when anyone with funds could own slaves. A time of raging capitalism. Most of the selling of Irish slaves to America stopped after the American revolution and the English then sold them to Australia. But sporadically the selling of Irish to American slave traders continued to as late as 1839 when slavery was made illegal in England and Great Britian. I am of the opinion that a parent's right to sell his or her children into indentured servitude didn't end until after the civil war. Interesting topic, at least to me.
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Good Lord, you are an idiot. Are you familiar with the term "apprentice" and the concept of "apprenticeship"?
You are a numbskull! An apprentice is a low paid employee learning from a skilled employer you simpleton. You (A) Don't sell an apprentice to anybody as did his mother. (B) You cannot place a wanted poster for someone who leaves your employment as did his owner. He was a runaway from servitude from his master. And (C) You cannot place a reward for the forcible return of an employee or apprentice. You have just lost the right to ever be taken seriously!
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OK then, show me the law that says you can't place a wanted poster for someone who leaves your employment.
Also, show me the law that says you can't place a reward for the forcible return of an apprentice.
If there are no laws against either action, then the employer can do it.
