Challenging slavery in the Chesapeake : Black and White resistance to human bondage, 1775-1865 T. Stephen Whitman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-

Contributor:

Maryland Historical Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Race relations.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Delaware--Race relations.

Delaware.

Enslaved persons--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Political activity--History.

Enslaved persons.

Free African Americans--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Politics and government.

Free African Americans.

White people--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Politics and government.

White people.

Slavery--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Slavery.

Government, Resistance to--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Government, Resistance to.

Slave rebellions--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Slave rebellions.

Antislavery movements--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Antislavery movements.

Physical Description:

301 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Maryland Historical Society, 2007.

Contents:

First Africans in the Chesapeake, 1619-1775

Slavery and the American Revolution

A changing tide, 1775-1815

Early Black challenges to slavery

A flickering candle

We got this far by faith

The two underground railroads

War and the destruction of slavery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0938420968 (alk. paper)

9780938420965 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

77270672