Rebels and Runaways : Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida /
This study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. The author discusses Florida's historical significance as a runaway slave haven dating back to the 17th century.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2012]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Day-to-day resistance
- Stepping up the degrees of resistance
- Away without leave
- A yearning for freedom
- Destinations of runaways
- Flight away from Florida
- In search of kinfolk and loved ones
- Catch the runaway
- Slave violence
- The second Seminole War
- The Civil War.