Slaves From The North

Author : Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015597222

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A North-side View of Slavery by Benjamin Drew Pdf

Author : Jukka Jari Korpela
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004381735

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Slaves from the North by Jukka Jari Korpela Pdf

In Slaves from the North Jukka Korpela offers an analysis of the slave trade in Finns and Karelians along Russian rivers to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions during the Middle Ages and premodern period.

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Black people
ISBN : NWU:35556002358612

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A North-side View of Slavery by Benjamin Drew Pdf

Author : Leon F. Litwack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226485874

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North of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack Pdf

". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."—John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education "For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."—C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar

Author : Marc Howard Ross
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295283

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Slavery in the North by Marc Howard Ross Pdf

In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it housed the enslaved men and women Washington brought to the city as well as serving as the country's first executive office building. Intense controversy erupted over what this newly resurfaced evidence of enslaved people in Philadelphia meant for the site that was next door to the new home for the Liberty Bell. How could slavery best be remembered and memorialized in the birthplace of American freedom? For Marc Howard Ross, this conflict raised a related and troubling question: why and how did slavery in the North fade from public consciousness to such a degree that most Americans have perceived it entirely as a "Southern problem"? Although slavery was institutionalized throughout the Northern as well as the Southern colonies and early states, the existence of slavery in the North and its significance for the region's economic development has rarely received public recognition. In Slavery in the North, Ross not only asks why enslavement disappeared from the North's collective memories but also how the dramatic recovery of these memories in recent decades should be understood. Ross undertakes an exploration of the history of Northern slavery, visiting sites such as the African Burial Ground in New York, Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the ports of Rhode Island, old mansions in Massachusetts, prestigious universities, and rediscovered burying grounds. Inviting the reader to accompany him on his own journey of discovery, Ross recounts the processes by which Northerners had collectively forgotten 250 years of human bondage and the recent—and continuing—struggles over recovering, and commemorating, what it entailed.

Author : Dennis B. Fradin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395970172

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Bound for the North Star by Dennis B. Fradin Pdf

True stories of fugitive slaves.

Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774832311

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North to Bondage by Harvey Amani Whitfield Pdf

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they settled in the Maritime colonies of British North America. Once there, slaves used their traditions of survival, resistance, and kinship networks to negotiate their new reality. Harvey Amani Whitfield’s book, the first on slavery in the Maritimes, is a startling corrective to the enduring and triumphant narrative of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674020820

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Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin Pdf

Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, Many Thousands Gone reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king. We witness the transformation that occurred as the first generations of creole slaves--who worked alongside their owners, free blacks, and indentured whites--gave way to the plantation generations, whose back-breaking labor was the sole engine of their society and whose physical and linguistic isolation sustained African traditions on American soil. As the nature of the slaves' labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this fresh and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth.

Author : Leland Donald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520918115

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Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America by Leland Donald Pdf

With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross-cultural definition of slavery. Arguing that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies, he points out how important slaves were to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange. Slavery also played a major role in more famous and frequently analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems of elite groups. The book includes detailed chapters on who owned slaves and the relations between masters and slaves; how slaves were procured; transactions in slaves; the nature, use, and value of slave labor; and the role of slaves in rituals. In addition to analyzing all the available data, ethnographic and historic, on slavery in traditional Northwest Coast cultures, Donald compares the status of Northwest Coast slaves with that of war captives in other parts of traditional Native North America.

Author : Arthur Zilversmit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 0226983323

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The First Emancipation by Arthur Zilversmit Pdf

Historical account of the efforts made from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth by individuals and by groups to end slavery in the Northern states.

Author : Anne Farrow,Joel Lang,Jenifer Frank
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307414793

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Complicity by Anne Farrow,Joel Lang,Jenifer Frank Pdf

A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery “The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco Chronicle The North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits—run, in some cases, by abolitionists—and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, are eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line. Culled from long-ignored documents and reports—and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings—Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America’s past.

Author : R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469608785

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Making Freedom by R. J. M. Blackett Pdf

The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences of escaped slaves and those who aided them to explore the inner workings of the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, while shedding light on the political effects of slave escape in southern states, border states, and the North. Blackett highlights the lives of those who escaped, the impact of the fugitive slave cases, and the extent to which slaves planning to escape were aided by free blacks, fellow slaves, and outsiders who went south to entice them to escape. Using these stories of particular individuals, moments, and communities, Blackett shows how slave flight shaped national politics as the South witnessed slavery beginning to collapse and the North experienced a threat to its freedom.

Author : Graham Russell Hodges
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0945612516

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Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North by Graham Russell Hodges Pdf

Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Hodges examines the experience of slavery and freedom in the rural north. This unique social history addresses many long held assumptions about the experience of slavery and emancipation outside the south. For example, by tracing the process by which whites maintained "a durable architecture of oppression" and a rigid racial hierarchy, it challenges the notions that slavery was milder and that racial boundaries were more permeable in the north. Monmouth County, New Jersey, because of its rich African American heritage and equally well-preserved historical record, provides an outstanding opportunity to study the rural life of an entire community over the course of two centuries. Hodges weaves an intricate pattern of life and death, work and worship, from the earliest settlement to the end of the Civil War.

Author : Barbara Krauthamer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469607108

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Black Slaves, Indian Masters by Barbara Krauthamer Pdf

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South