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