DOC Summer Storm: Regimental Wargame Scenarios For the Battle of Gettysburg by Brad Butkovich in History

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This is the story of Thomas McCreary; a slave catcher from Cecil County; Maryland. Reviled by some; proclaimed a hero by others; he first drew public attention in the late 1840s for a career that peaked a few years after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Living and working as he did at the midpoint between Philadelphia; an important center for assisting fugitive slaves; and Baltimore; a major port in the slave trade; his story illustrates in raw detail the tensions that arose along the border between slavery and freedom just prior to the Civil War. McCreary and his community provide a framework to examine slave catching and kidnapping in the Baltimore-Wilmington-Philadelphia region and how those activities contributed to the nation’s political and visceral divide.