Title Street diplomacy : the politics of slavery and freedom in Philadelphia, 1820-1850 / Elliott Drago.

Publication Info.	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
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Summary	Studying these timely struggles over race, politics, enslavement, and freedom in Philadelphia will encourage scholars to reexamine how Black freedom was not secure in Pennsylvania or in the wider United States.
Contents	Introduction: terror in an age of slavery -- A precarious freedom -- Street diplomacy -- Fugitive freedom in Philadelphia -- Domestic sanctuary -- A theatre of scenes -- Interlocking opportunities -- Epilogue: the famous grasshopper war
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Subject	Fugitive slaves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
	Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Kidnapping -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
	Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
	Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
	Abolitionists
	Antislavery movements
	Free African Americans -- Social conditions
	Fugitive slaves
	Kidnapping
	Politics and government
	Race relations
	Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrGtGVd3Pd8KWwFdVqRKd
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History
Other Form:	Print version: 1421444534 9781421444536 (OCoLC)1296404323
ISBN	9781421444543 electronic book
	1421444542 electronic book
	1421444534
	9781421444536