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Fugitivism - Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860 (Hardcover)
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Fugitivism - Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860 (Hardcover)
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During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were
taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them
were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and
Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an
environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking
creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to
planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and
cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as
quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh
extremes.Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the
Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties
or religious meetings, sometimes 'laying out' nearby for a few days
or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern
cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and
free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently
free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives
also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from
whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern
side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose.
Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from
advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains
how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban
runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved
people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between
black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them
encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway
slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the
abolitionist movement in the North. Readers will discover that
along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the
same opportunities afforded to most Americans.
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