The Slave Catcher's Woman

Download or read book The Slave Catcher's Woman written by James N. Littlefield and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Slave Catcher's Woman gives an amazing account of slavery in the Antebellum South from the unlikely viewpoint of a slave catcher who tracks down runaway slaves using his trusted and beloved bloodhounds. Coswell Elias Tims of Milledgeville, GA was deeply enmeshed in the "peculiar institution," yet manages to be an acute observer with a penchant for honest and objective reporting of the world he sees around him. His voice is that of an engaging backwoods storyteller who soon wins the reader's affection with his homespun philosophies and his all-to-familiar human struggles. Not the monster that history suggests, but a man, slave catcher Coswell Tims takes the reader down a trail fraught with violence and fear in this action packed narrative of fistfights, killings, knifings and kidnappings. And woven through it all, looms the powerful presence of the woman named Cynthia, the slave catcher's woman.