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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Auteur principal: Müller, Viola Franziska, 1987- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Slavery.
Fugitive slaves.
Free Black people.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Free Black people > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
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 (262 pages).
ISBN:9781469671086

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