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