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Freedom Seekers - Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800-1860 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Freedom Seekers - Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800-1860 (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
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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.
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