Modern-Day Slave Catchers on the Job in Galveston, Texas

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I n a scene straight out of every slavery novel or film ever written or produced, and the blood-soaked history in which they are steeped, two white Galveston, Texas policemen paraded a handcuffed, roped or leashed black man through the streets of the city as they rode comfortably, nonchalantly, astride horses.