Shadrach Minkins : : From Fugitive Slave to Citizen /

Shadrach Minkins : : From Fugitive Slave to Citizen / / Gary Lee Collison.

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On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate Black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Collison, Gary Lee,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1997
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • NORFOLK
  • 1. "Han't Got No Self"
  • 2. "Horses and Men, Cattle and Women, Pigs and Children"
  • 3. "The Silver Trump of Freedom"
  • BOSTON
  • 4. "Cradle of Liberty"?
  • 5. "A New Reign of Terror"
  • 6. "Much Excitement Prevails"
  • 7. "A Thing ... or a Man?"
  • 8. "Plucked as a Brand from the Burning"
  • 9. "Never Was a Darker Day"
  • 10. North Star
  • MONTREAL
  • 11. "Please to Remember Me Kindly"
  • 12. A Home Far Away
  • 13. "Free at Last! Free at Last!"
  • Epilogue
  • Militia Petition by Black Residents of Montreal
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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