As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on
the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the
Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of
enslaved people of African descent could reach a place of freedom
and opportunity. In A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the
Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland, editors
Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker explore the experiences
of the area's freedom-seekers and advocates, both black and white,
against the backdrop of the social forces-legal, political, social,
religious, and economic-that shaped the meaning of race and
management of slavery on both sides of the river. In five parts,
contributors trace the beginnings of and necessity for
transnational abolitionist activism in this unique borderland, and
the legal and political pressures, coupled with African Americans'
irrepressible quest for freedom, that led to the growth of the
Underground Railroad. A Fluid Frontier details the founding of
African Canadian settlements in the Detroit River region in the
first decades of the nineteenth century with a focus on the strong
and enduring bonds of family, faith, and resistance that formed
between communities in Michigan and what is now Ontario. New
scholarship offers unique insight into the early history of slavery
and resistance in the region and describes individual journeys: the
perilous crossing into Canada of sixteen-year-old Caroline Quarlls,
who was enslaved by her own aunt and uncle; the escape of the
Crosswhite family, who eluded slave catchers in Marshall, Michigan,
with the help of others in the town; and the internationalcrisis
sparked by the escape of Lucie and Thornton Blackburn and others.
With a foreword by David W. Blight, A Fluid Frontier is a truly
bi-national collection, with contributors and editors evenly split
between specialists in Canadian and American history, representing
both community and academic historians. Scholars of the Underground
Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the
interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.
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