Escape to the city : fugitive slaves in the antebellum urban South /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Müller, Viola Franziska, 1987- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Temas:
1800-1899
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Free Black people > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > Southern States > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Free Black people.
Fugitive slaves.
Slavery.
Southern States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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