Freedom Seekers (eBook)

Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800-1860

Damian Alan Pargas (Autor)

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2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-84607-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this fascinating book, Damian Alan Pargas introduces a new conceptualization of ''spaces of freedom'' for fugitive slaves in North America between 1800 and 1860, and answers the questions: How and why did enslaved people flee to – and navigate – different destinations throughout the continent, and to what extent did they succeed in evading recapture and re-enslavement? Taking a continental approach, this study highlights the diversity of slave fight by conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct – and continuously evolving – spaces of freedom. Namely, spaces of informal freedom in the US South, where enslaved people attempted to flee by passing as free blacks; spaces of semi-formal freedom in the US North, where slavery was abolished but the precise status of fugitive slaves was contested; and spaces of formal freedom in Canada and Mexico, where slavery was abolished and runaways were considered legally free and safe from re-enslavement.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-316-84607-5 / 1316846075
• ISBN-13: 978-1-316-84607-0 / 9781316846070