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Escape to the city : fugitive slaves in the antebellum urban South /
"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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| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rethinking Slave Flight
- Chapter One: The Urgency to Escape
- Chapter Two: The Making of the New Fugitive Slave
- Chapter Three: Receiving Communities, Illegality, and the Absence of Freedom
- Chapter Four: Navigating the City
- Chapter Five: Finding Work, Remaining Poor
- Chapter Six: Urban Politics and Black Labor
- Conclusion: The Ambiguities of Illegality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
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- Index of Names
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- Index of Occupations and Work
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