| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. |
| Description |
data file |
| Series |
The North's Civil War
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North's Civil War.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on "the Edge of Freedom" -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonizationism, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : The Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-1828 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition. |
| Summary |
In this work, Smith illuminates the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsylvania a border region of a border state with a complicated history of slavery antislavery activism, and unequal freedom. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Fugitive slaves -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Underground Railroad -- Pennsylvania.
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Borderlands -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) |
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Abolitionists |
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African Americans |
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Antislavery movements |
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Borderlands |
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Fugitive slaves |
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Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Race relations |
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Underground Railroad |
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Pennsylvania https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwmQkJKC3ppCRd8PKBpT3 |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, David G. (David Grant), 1964- On the edge of freedom. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013 9780823240326 (DLC) 2011037748 |
| ISBN |
9780823240364 (electronic bk.) |
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0823240363 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823263974 (electronic bk.) |
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0823263975 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823249466 (electronic bk.) |
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0823249468 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823240326 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0823240320 |
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0823263797 |
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9780823263790 |
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