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x, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index. |
| Contents |
The honest growler and absentee slaves -- Like ants into a pantry -- I had rather a negro do anything else than runaway -- De boat am in de water -- The urban runaway -- Stealing slaves to sell or save -- Each one is made a policeman -- Federal fugitives, the kidnapper captain, and gruesome stories -- Post script |
| Summary |
During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes. Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North. |
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Fugitive slaves -- Mississippi River Valley Region -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley Region -- History -- 19th century.
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Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Fugitive slaves. (OCoLC)fst00935940
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Slaves -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01120577
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Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Escaping slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860 |
| ISBN |
9781682260999 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1682260992 |
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9781610756693 (ebk) |
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