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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Müller, Viola Franziska, 1987- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Sujets:
1800-1899
Fugitive slaves > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Free Black people > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Esclaves fugitifs > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes noires affranchies > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Free Black people
Fugitive slaves
Slavery
Southern States
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (pages cm.)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469671086
1469671085

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