Voorbeelden van fugitive

• Motivated by the need for more settlers, they turned a blind eye to fugitives' illegal status and permitted them to settle.

• The gamble paid off as huge audiences came to antislavery meetings to hear the chilling and compelling stories of recently escaped fugitives.

• Then again, compared to their male counterparts, fewer female fugitives appeared and spoke at abolitionists' lecture series.

• Although nothing ever came of this, it is interesting that the fugitives would have been arrested in such a high profile manner.

• Rather, documents described workers as fugitives (taowang) or as having stealthily absconded (qiantao).

• Shepherds were not permitted to quit, and if they 'absconded', they became fugitives.

• To this end they repeatedly urged the government to return fugitives to their cities, and to abolish the immunities enjoyed by church and noble land in and around the cities.

• Given this situation their only option was to become fugitives on their own land, which as mentioned earlier, had adverse consequences for the future claims on land.