Escape to the City - Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (Hardcover)

Viola Franziska Muller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Muller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved African Americans in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2022
Authors:	Viola Franziska Muller
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-7105-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of other lands
LSN:	1-4696-7105-0
Barcode:	9781469671055

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