"Pretends to Be Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey

Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pretends to Be Free" recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Brown, Alan Edward (HerausgeberIn), Hodges, Graham Russell Gao (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Fordham University Press [2019]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282166
Zusammenfassung:Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pretends to Be Free" recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before and during the American Revolution. Through these notices, readers can discover how enslaved blacks chose allegiance during our War for Independence.Replete with a preface by Edward E. Baptist, the leading scholar of slavery and capitalism and director of a massive project aimed at digitalizing every escape notice, and with a new Introduction and teacher’s guide by Graham Hodges, this new edition makes this documentary study more relevant than ever
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
Umfang:1 online resource (416 pages) 16
ISBN:9780823282166
DOI:10.1515/9780823282166