Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America / edited by Damian Alan Pargas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pargas, Damian Alan, editor.

Series:

Southern dissent.

Southern dissent

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Fugitive slaves--United States.

Fugitive slaves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2019.

Summary:

Approaching the period of 1880-1930 in American literature as one in which the processes of rethinking the past were as prevalent as wholly "new" works of art, this collection treats the century's long turn as a site that overtly staged the tension among conflicting sets of values--those of past, present, and the imagined future. As the authors of this collection demonstrate, the literature from the century's turn is irreducible to the characteristics either of the nineteenth or the twentieth centuries; rather, it is literature of dual practices and multiple values that embodies elastic qualities of historical plurality--a true literature in transition.

Contents:

Introduction: spaces of freedom in North America / Damian Alan Pargas

Black self-emancipation, gradual emancipation, and the underground railroad in the northern colonies and states, 1763-1804 / Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Revisiting "British principle talk": antebellum black expectations and racism in early Ontario / Gordon S. Barker

The underground railroad in "Indian country": northwest Ohio, 1795-1843 / Roy E. Finkenbine

After 1850: reassessing the impact of the fugitive slave law / Matthew Pinsker

Seeking freedom in the midst of slavery: fugitive slaves in the antebellum south / Damian Alan Pargas

Illegal but tolerated: slave refugees in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1860 / Viola Franziska Müller

Borderland maroons / Sylviane A. Diouf

Advertising maranda: runaway slaves in texas, 1835-1865 / Kyle Ainsworth

"Design his course to Mexico": the fugitive slave experience in the Texas-Mexico borderlands, 1850-1853 / Mekala Audain

Freedom interrupted: rUnaway slaves and insecure borders in the Mexican northeast / James David Nichols

The US coastal passage & Caribbean spaces of freedom / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5380-3

0-8130-5239-4

OCLC:

1048896209