Well, this is very easy, first up; what's a fugitive?
A fugitive is a person that has escaped a place/or is in hiding;to avoid arrest/persecution.
So traveling by wagons,railroads,and walking makes sense. Except for one, slave ships, that makes no sense at all. Why would fugitive slaves travel on "slave ships?"
https://socratic.org/questions/how-were-the-west-african-kingdoms-involved-in-the-slave-trade
With the development of the trans-Saharan slave trade and the economies of gold in the western Sahel, a number of the major states became organized around the slave trade, including the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and Songhai Empire. However, other communities in West Africa largely resisted the slave trade.
The transatlantic slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and subsequently other European kingdoms, were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe
It depends on how long your break from work would be, and if they would have the same pay.
<span>The Missouri compromise achieved the goal of ending the expansion of slavery into newer territories in the United States. Missouri was entered into the Union as a slave-state as long as the other Western territories were not supporting slavery.</span>