Illegal Self-Emancipation in the Urban Upper South, 1800-1860
Contrary to common assumptions that self-emancipation by flight was only possible to regions outside the southern states, this article argues that many slaves actively took and preserved their freedom by hiding amongst free African American populations in urban areas. In the late eighteenth and earl...
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Université de Poitiers
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers du MIMMOC |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mimmoc/2874 |