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Freedom as marronage
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ISBN: 9780226127460 022612746X 9780226201047 022620104X Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : The University of Chicago Press,

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Fugitive slaves --- Liberty. --- Maroons.


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Fugitive slave advertisements in the City Gazette, Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797
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ISBN: 1498507824 9781498507820 9781498507813 9781498507820 1498507816 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books,

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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston's daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority.


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Your time is done now : slavery, resistance and defeat : the Maroon trials of Dominica (1813-1814)
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ISBN: 1583675612 9781583675618 9781583675595 9781583675588 1583675582 1583675590 9781583675595 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, New York ; London, England ; Trafalgar, Dominica : Monthly Review Press : Papillote Press,


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Aiming for Pensacola
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ISBN: 0674088239 9780674088238 9780674088221 0674088220 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.


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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of America's fugitive slaves
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ISBN: 9780198737902 0198737904 1336195967 0191057827 0191057819 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.


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Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery
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ISBN: 0820347248 9780820348322 0820348325 9780820338026 0820338028 9780820347240 Year: 2015 Publisher: Athens University of Georgia Press

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The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900; 1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his "master's" devoted slave valet; both traveled openly by train, steamship, and carriage to arrive in free Philadelphia on Christmas Day. In Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery, Barbara McCaskill revisits this dual escape and examines the collaborations and partnerships that characterized the Crafts' activism for the next


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Freedom as Marronage
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ISBN: 022620118X 9780226201184 9780226127460 9780226201047 022612746X 022620104X Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage-a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon-one of action from slavery and toward freedom-he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space-that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite.


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Huck Finn's America : Mark Twain and the era that shaped his masterpiece
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ISBN: 9781439186961 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York London [etc.] Simon & Schuster

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