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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Müller, Viola Franziska, 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (262 pages).
ISBN:9781469671086

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