When he was near the house, the dogs, black as liquorice, came out of the trees, stopped, heads up, looked around as if seeing the land for the first time.

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The handlers release their dogs and Snow and Black lunge at one another.

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During the Civil Rights struggle black men often found themselves in the jaws of police dogs sicced on them by racist Southern white cops.

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One US newspaper described it as embracing "everything from country-tinged ditties to Black Sabbath-style fuzzbuckets with the Paul McCartney songbook tossed in to throw the dogs off the scent".

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