A North-side View of Slavery
Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Vicent Cucarella Ramon
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8491349138
Benjamin Drew’s "North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada" (1856) is a collection of his interviews with former slaves living in Canada who had escaped from the United States, and an invaluable example of the transnational abolitionist movement’s political agenda. These edited oral accounts show how these runaways turned into African Canadians and reconfigured new meanings of Blackness in Canada, set out the foundations of a Black Canadian sense of attachment, and eventually helped to reshape North America by contributing to the birth of the Canadian nation-state.
Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Boston : J.P. Jewett ; Cleveland : Jewett, Proctor and Worthington ; New York : Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman ; London : Trübner
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 1856
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Robert H. Churchill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108489125
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Author : Hannah Crafts
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2002-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759527644
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.
Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1541617770
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Author : Henry Bibb
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN :
Author : Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374531256
The Blackburns' improbable journey from bondage to freedom pulsates with the breath-catching urgency of a thriller, yet this remarkable story is true . . . An invaluable testament to resistance, resilience, and a once-denied but unalienable right to life and liberty.--Rene Graham, "The Boston Globe."
Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1550028014
In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black people lived in the colony, most of whom were escaped slaves from south of the border. One of the people Drew interviewed was Harriet Tubman, who was then based in St. Catharines but made several trips to the U.S. South to lead slaves to freedom in Canada. In the course of his journeys in Canada, Drew visited Chatham, Toronto, Galt, Hamilton, London, Dresden, Windsor, and a number of other communities. Originally published in 1856, Drews book is the only collection of first-hand interviews of fugitive slaves in Canada ever done. It is an invaluable record of early black Canadian experience.
Author : Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0813065798
This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Using newspapers, advertisements, and new demographic data, contributors show how events like the Revolutionary War and westward expansion shaped the slave experience. Contributors investigate sites of formal freedom, where slavery was abolished and refugees were legally free, to determine the extent to which fugitive slaves experienced freedom in places like Canada while still being subject to racism. In sites of semiformal freedom, as in the northern United States, fugitives’ claims to freedom were precarious because state abolition laws conflicted with federal fugitive slave laws. Contributors show how local committees strategized to interfere with the work of slave catchers to protect refugees. Sites of informal freedom were created within the slaveholding South, where runaways who felt relocating to distant destinations was too risky formed maroon communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations. These individuals procured false documents or changed their names to avoid detection and pass as free. The essays discuss slaves’ motivations for choosing these destinations, the social networks that supported their plans, what it was like to settle in their new societies, and how slave flight impacted broader debates about slavery. This volume redraws the map of escape and emancipation during this period, emphasizing the importance of place in defining the meaning and extent of freedom. Contributors: Kyle Ainsworth | Mekala Audain | Gordon S. Barker | Sylviane A. Diouf | Roy E. Finkenbine | Graham Russell Gao Hodges | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie | Viola Franziska Müller | James David Nichols | Damian Alan Pargas | Matthew Pinsker A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller