Aiming for Pensacola : : Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers / / Matthew J. Clavin.
Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seapo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 10 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Colonial Period
- 2. War of 1812 and Negro Fort
- 3. Interracialism and Resistance
- 4. Running Away
- 5. Underground Railroad
- 6. Civil War
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index