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Non-slaveholders came to get rid of the competition of slave labor, and free negroes came to avoid reenslavement.

From An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm by Macy, Jesse

The activities of the Quakers, who were at first engaged merely in preventing the reenslavement of those who had a legal right to freedom, naturally expanded until aid was given without reservation to any fugitive.

From An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm by Macy, Jesse

The Negroes lived in fear of reenslavement while the whites believed that the war between the North and South would soon be renewed.

From A Century of Negro Migration by Woodson, Carter Godwin