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Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America (Paperback, New edition)
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Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Southern Dissent
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This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of
runaway slaves by defining different "spaces of freedom" they
inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of
fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or
national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. North
and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Using newspapers,
advertisements, and new demographic data, contributors show how
events like the Revolutionary War and westward expansion shaped the
slave experience. Contributors investigate sites of formal freedom,
where slavery was abolished and refugees were legally free, to
determine the extent to which fugitive slaves experienced freedom
in places like Canada while still being subject to racism. In sites
of semiformal freedom, as in the northern United States, fugitives'
claims to freedom were precarious because state abolition laws
conflicted with federal fugitive slave laws. Contributors show how
local committees strategized to interfere with the work of slave
catchers to protect refugees. Sites of informal freedom were
created within the slaveholding South, where runaways who felt
relocating to distant destinations was too risky formed maroon
communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations.
These individuals procured false documents or changed their names
to avoid detection and pass as free. The essays discuss slaves'
motivations for choosing these destinations, the social networks
that supported their plans, what it was like to settle in their new
societies, and how slave flight impacted broader debates about
slavery. This volume redraws the map of escape and emancipation
during this period, emphasizing the importance of place in defining
the meaning and extent of freedom. Contributors: Kyle Ainsworth |
Mekala Audain | Gordon S. Barker | Sylviane A. Diouf | Roy E.
Finkenbine | Graham Russell Gao Hodges | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie |
Viola Franziska Muller | James David Nichols | Damian Alan Pargas |
Matthew Pinsker A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by
Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
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