Freedom Seekers - Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in 17th-century London. It was the joint winner of the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition in 2023. The judges wrote: 'Freedom Seekers is a powerful testimony to people's desire for liberty and control over their lives.'

About the author

Simon P. Newman is emeritus professor of history at the University of Glasgow and is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. He helped create the graphic novel Freedom Bound: Escaping Slavery in Scotland.

Product details

• Authors: Simon P. Newman
• Publisher: University of London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2022
• EAN: 9781912702930
• ISBN: 978-1-912702-93-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 154 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 492 g
• Illustrations: Figures; Maps; Illustrations, color
• Series: Open access titles; Institute of Historical Resear
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous