| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction : Rethinking slave flight -- The urgency to escape -- The making of the new fugitive slave -- Receiving communities, illegality, and the absence of freedom -- Navigating the city -- Finding work, remaining poor -- Urban politics and Black labor -- Conclusion : The ambiguities of illegality |
| Summary |
"Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Viola Franziska Müller is a social historian at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Southern States -- History
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Free Black people -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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Fugitive slaves -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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Free Black people
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Fugitive slaves
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Slavery
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History of the Americas.
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History.
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022020615 |
| ISBN |
9781469671086 |
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1469671085 |
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