Fugitive slaves and spaces of freedom in North America / edited by Damian Alan Pargas ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pargas, Damian Alan, editor.

Harrold, Stanley, writer of foreword.

Miller, Randall M., writer of foreword.

Series:

Southern dissent.

Southern dissent

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fugitive slaves--United States.

Fugitive slaves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 321 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2020.

Summary:

This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different "spaces of freedom" that fugitive slaves inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. South, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Introduction: Spaces of Freedom in North America

1. Black Self-Emancipation, Gradual Emancipation, and the Underground Railroad in the Northern Colonies and States, 1763-1804

2. Revisiting "British Principle Talk": Antebellum Black Expectations and Racism in Early Ontario

3. The Underground Railroad in "Indian Country": Northwest Ohio, 1795-1843

4. After 1850: Reassessing the Impact of the Fugitive Slave Law

5. Seeking Freedom in the Midst of Slavery: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum South

6. Illegal but Tolerated: Slave Refugees in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1860

7. Borderland Maroons

8. Advertising Maranda: Runaway Slaves in Texas, 1835-1865

9. "Design His Course to Mexico": The Fugitive Slave Experience in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1850-1853

10. Freedom Interrupted: Runaway Slaves and Insecure Borders in the Mexican Northeast

11. The U.S. Coastal Passage and Caribbean Spaces of Freedom

Contributors

Index

Southern Dissent.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780813065793

0813065798

OCLC:

1255225972