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Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in England's capital. In 1655 White Londoners began advertising in the English-speaking world's first newspapers for enslaved people who had escaped. Based on the advertisements placed in these newspapers by masters and enslavers offering rewards for so-called runaways, this book brings to light for the first time the history of slavery in England as revealed in the stories of resistance by enslaved workers. Featuring a series of case-studies of individual "freedom-seekers", this book explores the nature and significance of escape attempts as well as detailing the likely routes and networks they would take to gain their freedom. The book demonstrates that not only were enslaved people present in Restoration London but that White Londoners of this era were intimately involved in the construction of the system of racial slavery, a process that traditionally has been regarded as happening in the colonies rather than the British Isles. An unmissable and important book that seeks to delve into Britain's colonial past.

Slavery --- Fugitive slaves. --- History.

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Blacks --- Fugitive slaves --- Underground Railroad

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This book focuses on the culture of resistance of enslaved women and men based on the classifieds published in newspapers in Louisiana, Jamaica and South Carolina during the second half of the era of the Atlantic Revolutions. In a few lines, they announced their escape from the slavery framework and revealed their desire not to be victims. Drawing on socio-cultural history and American studies, this work proposes to re-evaluate a narrative genre - the small advertisement of flight - and a form of resistance - the flight. It answers two big questions: how to understand and evaluate these thousands of announcements which mentioned the absence, the tricks and the tactics of people enslaved but choosing resistance? What did the act of fleeing mean to them?

Fugitive slaves --- Fugitive slaves --- Fugitive slaves --- Advertising, Classified --- Advertising, Classified --- Advertising, Classified --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History

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When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he'd tracked them down, as his federal posse retreated pell-mell before thearmed might of local blacks--and the impact of the most notorious act of resistance against the federal Fugitive Slave Law was about to be felt across a divided nation. Bloody Dawn vividly tells this dramatic story of escape, manhunt, riot, and the ensuing trial, detailing its importance in heightening

African Americans. --- Fugitive slaves. --- Riots. --- Violence.

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"Cora, seize ans, est esclave sur une plantation de coton dans la Géorgie d'avant la guerre de Sécession. Abandonnée par sa mère lorsqu'elle était enfant, elle survit tant bien que mal à la violence de sa condition. Lorsque Caesar, un esclave récemment arrivé de Virginie, lui propose de s'enfuir pour gagner avec lui les États libres du Nord, elle accepte. De la Caroline du Sud à l'Indiana en passant par le Tennessee, Cora va vivre une incroyable odyssée. Traquée comme une bête par un impitoyable chasseur d'esclaves, elle fera tout pour conquérir sa liberté. Exploration des fondements et de la mécanique du racisme, récit saisissant d'un combat poignant, Underground Railroad est une oeuvre politique aujourd'hui plus que jamais nécessaire."--Back cover.

Underground Railroad --- Fugitive slaves --- United States