Freedom Seekers - Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800-1860

Sommario

Introduction: 1. The changing geography of slavery and freedom; 2. 'Lurking amongst the free Negroes': spaces of informal freedom in the Urban South; 3. 'As if their own liberty were at stake': spaces of semi-formal freedom in the Northern United States; 4. 'Departure from the house of bondage': spaces of formal freedom in British Canada and Mexico; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Info autore

Damian Alan Pargas is Professor of North American History and Culture at Leiden University and director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands. He is the author of two books, The Quarters and the Fields (2010) and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South (Cambridge, 2014).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Damian Alan Pargas, Damian Alan (Universiteit Leiden) Pargas, Pargas Damian Alan
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781107179554
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17955-4
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas