Fugitive Slaves

Author : Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065793

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Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America by Damian Alan Pargas Pdf

This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they 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. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Using newspapers, advertisements, and new demographic data, contributors show how events like the Revolutionary War and westward expansion shaped the slave experience. Contributors investigate sites of formal freedom, where slavery was abolished and refugees were legally free, to determine the extent to which fugitive slaves experienced freedom in places like Canada while still being subject to racism. In sites of semiformal freedom, as in the northern United States, fugitives’ claims to freedom were precarious because state abolition laws conflicted with federal fugitive slave laws. Contributors show how local committees strategized to interfere with the work of slave catchers to protect refugees. Sites of informal freedom were created within the slaveholding South, where runaways who felt relocating to distant destinations was too risky formed maroon communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations. These individuals procured false documents or changed their names to avoid detection and pass as free. The essays discuss slaves’ motivations for choosing these destinations, the social networks that supported their plans, what it was like to settle in their new societies, and how slave flight impacted broader debates about slavery. This volume redraws the map of escape and emancipation during this period, emphasizing the importance of place in defining the meaning and extent of freedom. Contributors: Kyle Ainsworth | Mekala Audain | Gordon S. Barker | Sylviane A. Diouf | Roy E. Finkenbine | Graham Russell Gao Hodges | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie | Viola Franziska Müller | James David Nichols | Damian Alan Pargas | Matthew Pinsker A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Author : Lolita Buckner Inniss
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780823285358

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The Princeton Fugitive Slave by Lolita Buckner Inniss Pdf

A study of the life of a Maryland slave, his escape to freedom in New Jersey, and the trials that ensued. James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was recognized by a student from Maryland, arrested, and subjected to a trial for extradition under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. On the eve of his rendition, after attempts to free Johnson by force had failed, a local aristocratic white woman purchased Johnson’s freedom, allowing him to avoid re-enslavement. The Princeton Fugitive Slave reconstructs James Collins Johnson’s life, from birth and enslaved life in Maryland to his daring escape, sensational trial for re-enslavement, and last-minute change of fortune, and through to the end of his life in Princeton, where he remained a figure of local fascination. Stories of Johnson’s life in Princeton often describe him as a contented, jovial soul, beloved on campus and memorialized on his gravestone as “The Students Friend.” But these familiar accounts come from student writings and sentimental recollections in alumni reports—stories from elite, predominantly white, often southern sources whose relationships with Johnson were hopelessly distorted by differences in race and social standing. In interrogating these stories against archival records, newspaper accounts, courtroom narratives, photographs, and family histories, author Lolita Buckner Inniss builds a picture of Johnson on his own terms, piecing together the sparse evidence and disaggregating him from the other black vendors with whom he was sometimes confused. By telling Johnson’s story and examining the relationship between antebellum Princeton’s Black residents and the economic engine that supported their community, the book questions the distinction between employment and servitude that shrinks and threatens to disappear when an individual’s freedom is circumscribed by immobility, lack of opportunity, and contingency on local interpretations of a hotly contested body of law. Praise for The Princeton Fugitive Slave “Fascinating historical detective work . . . Deeply researched, the book overturns any lingering idea that Princeton was a haven from the broader society. Johnson had to cope with the casual racism of students, occasional eruptions of racial violence in town and the ubiquitous use of the N-word by even the supposedly educated. This book contributes to our understanding of slavery’s legacy today.” —Shane White, author of Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire “Collectively, Inniss’s work provides an exciting model for future scholars of slavery and labor. Perhaps most importantly, Inniss skillfully and compassionately restores Johnson's voice to his own historical narrative.” —G. Patrick O'Brien, H-Slavery

Author : R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418713

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The Captive's Quest for Freedom by R. J. M. Blackett Pdf

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Author : John Hope Franklin,Loren Schweninger
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0195084519

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Runaway Slaves by John Hope Franklin,Loren Schweninger Pdf

This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.

Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525560302

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The War Before the War by Andrew Delbanco Pdf

"Excellent...stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War A New York Times Notable Book Selection * Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize* Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * A New York Times Critics' Best Book For decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights at all. By awakening northerners to the true nature of slavery, and by enraging southerners who demanded the return of their human "property," fugitive slaves forced the nation to confront the truth about itself. By 1850, with America on the verge of collapse, Congress reached what it hoped was a solution-- the notorious Compromise of 1850, which required that fugitive slaves be returned to their masters. Like so many political compromises before and since, it was a deal by which white Americans tried to advance their interests at the expense of black Americans. Yet the Fugitive Slave Act, intended to preserve the Union, in fact set the nation on the path to civil war. It divided not only the American nation, but also the hearts and minds of Americans who struggled with the timeless problem of when to submit to an unjust law and when to resist. The fugitive slave story illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015597222

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A North-side View of Slavery by Benjamin Drew Pdf

Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541617773

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South to Freedom by Alice L Baumgartner Pdf

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Boston : J.P. Jewett ; Cleveland : Jewett, Proctor and Worthington ; New York : Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman ; London : Trübner
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UGA:32108001259004

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The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada ... by Benjamin Drew Pdf

Author : Vicent Cucarella Ramon
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788491349136

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Benjamin Drew by Vicent Cucarella Ramon Pdf

Benjamin Drew’s "North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada" (1856) is a collection of his interviews with former slaves living in Canada who had escaped from the United States, and an invaluable example of the transnational abolitionist movement’s political agenda. These edited oral accounts show how these runaways turned into African Canadians and reconfigured new meanings of Blackness in Canada, set out the foundations of a Black Canadian sense of attachment, and eventually helped to reshape North America by contributing to the birth of the Canadian nation-state.

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Black people
ISBN : NWU:35556002358612

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A North-side View of Slavery by Benjamin Drew Pdf

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486170480

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Refugees from Slavery by Benjamin Drew Pdf

A soul-stirring account of the abuses suffered by refugees from Southern slave states as well as fresh insights into the workings of the plantation system.

Author : Thomas M. KINNAIRD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Fugitive slaves
ISBN : BL:A0023246013

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Fugitive slaves in Canada. [An appeal on behalf of Mr. Kinnaird's mission.] by Thomas M. KINNAIRD Pdf

Author : Marion Gleason McDougall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010375392

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Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) by Marion Gleason McDougall Pdf

Author : Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107179554

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Freedom Seekers by Damian Alan Pargas Pdf

Examines the experiences of runaway slaves in North America, conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct 'spaces of freedom'.

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Blacks
ISBN : OCLC:1151072912

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The Refugee, Or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada by Benjamin Drew Pdf