Conditional freedom : : free soil and fugitive slaves, from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861 / / by Thomas Mareite.

• VerfasserIn: Mareite, Thomas, 1992-
• Language: English

"While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi Valley during the nineteenth-century"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Fleeing slavery -- Experiencing slavery, imagining freedom -- Geography, mobility and networks : escaping through the US-Mexico borderlands -- Crafting freedom -- Self-liberated slaves and asylum in Northeastern Mexico, 1803-1836 -- "Mexico was free! No slave clanked his chains under its government" : contests over Mexico's free soil, 1836-1861 -- Conclusion: "Mexico will surely be overrun by the slaves from the Southern States" : the making of free soil, the unmaking of the second slavery -- Appendix 1: The process of the abolition of slavery in early independent Mexico following the Federalist Constitution of 1824 -- Appendix 2: José Joaquín Ugarte to Señor Brigadier Marqués de Casa Calvo [Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill], Nacogdoches, 11 September 1804.