The slave-catching dog that was infamous in the South for tracking down its victims and savagely mauling them was the Cuban bloodhound.
It was most likely derived from the Spanish war mastiff (a derivative of the Alaunt) with maybe a tough of greyhound or scent hound blood.
Drury has a depiction of this dog:
Note how similar this [...]
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