| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Rethinking slave flight -- The urgency to escape -- The making of the new fugitive slave -- Receiving communities, illegality, and the absence of freedom -- Navigating the city -- Finding work, remaining poor -- Urban politics and Black labor -- Conclusion : The ambiguities of illegality. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Viola Franziska Müller is a social historian at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
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Free Black people -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Fugitive slaves -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies |
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Free Black people |
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Fugitive slaves |
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Slavery |
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Southern States |
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History of the Americas. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Title |
Fugitive slaves in the antebellum urban South |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Müller, Viola Franziska, 1987- Escape to the city. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022] 9781469671055 (DLC) 2022020615 (OCoLC)1319010049 |
| ISBN |
9781469671086 electronic book |
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1469671085 electronic book |
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9781469671055 hardcover |
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1469671050 hardcover |
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9781469671062 paperback |
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1469671069 paperback |
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