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Bly, Antonio T. "Pretty, Sassy, Cool: Slave Resistance, Agency, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century New England." New England Quarterly 89, no. 3 (September 2016): 457–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00548.

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Runaway slave advertisements are a staple of African and African American Studies. For well over a century, they have provided scholars from many different disciplines a rich resource to examine slavery. In addition to recording slaves dogged determination to be free, their persistent efforts to preserve family ties, and their astute awareness of the politics of their day, advertisements for fugitive slaves include complex stories that reflect varied nuances of the past. It is those nuances that represent the focus of this article that explores bondage in colonial New England.
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Brockington, Lolita Gutiérrez. "The African Diaspora in the Eastern Andes: Adaptation, Agency, and Fugitive Action, 1573-1677." Americas 57, no. 2 (October 2000): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2000.0003.

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In 1545, miners struck silver in what would become one of the richest veins in the entire New World, the near legendary Cerro Rico of Potosí, in the Andean highlands of Peru. This strike prompted swift action on the part of royal authorities. They sought to rearrange existing land and labor systems and to establish new ones to meet the spiraling economic demands. Simultaneously they had to cope with a dramatic, unprecedented drop in the indigenous population which hitherto had supplied needed labor. The crown turned elsewhere, and authorized the exploitation of another, far more distant group of people. Slaves from Africa became an additional, ongoing source of much needed labor in the Andes.
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Vrana, Laura. "Genre Experiments: Thylias Moss’s Slave Moth and the Poetic Neo-Slave Narrative." MELUS 46, no. 2 (May 10, 2021): 111–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab020.

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Abstract As histories of experimentation on the enslaved receive scholarly attention, so too are neo-slave narratives representing and commenting on this aspect of enslavement, in both their content and their form. This article examines Thylias Moss’s genre-troubling Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse (2004), a neo-slave text that depicts an enslaved woman named Varl treated as an object of psychological experimentation. Varl develops a strong subjectivity through becoming a subject performing experiments: aesthetic experiments in how she chooses to represent her narrative in stitched cloths. The subtly experimental poetic devices through which Moss crafts this representation highlight that this protagonist possesses an alternate, generative epistemology that differs meaningfully from her master’s scientific worldview and thereby enables fugitive, temporary agency and freedom. By analyzing Slave Moth, I argue that the ethically problematic epistemology that generated experiments on the enslaved has certainly not dissipated and that it indirectly undergirds lyric theory’s failure to engage form in texts by nonwhite poets. Through contrasting close attention to formal devices by which Moss undermines teleological narrative, this essay postulates that “lyric time” enables fleeting, yet nevertheless generative, subversions of the formal expectations readers impose on texts representing enslavement. Reading Slave Moth through such a lens suggests potential middle-ground formal alternatives to wholly rejecting either narrative or lyric as genres and to thereby asymptotically approaching adequate representation of enslavement.
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Asaka, Ikuko. "Different Tales of John Glasgow: John Brown’s Evolution to Slave Life in Georgia." Journal of Black Studies 49, no. 3 (January 10, 2018): 212–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934717749417.

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This article seeks to advance conversation on the literary and political agency of fugitive slave narrators and their far-reaching archival footprints by focusing on the evolution of John Brown’s narrative of John Glasgow, a Demerara-born free Black sailor with whom Brown toiled side by side on a Georgian plantation. In British and U.S. abolitionist discourse, Glasgow’s tragic story—he was imprisoned under Georgia’s seamen law upon arriving in Savannah and eventually fell into bondage—made him the symbol of the southern seamen acts’ egregious infringement of British freedom. Brown, a formerly enslaved expatriate resident in England, told this tale in his autobiography Slave Life in Georgia, but the authorship of this story has some ambiguity. It is believed by some scholars that the narrative’s editor, London-based White abolitionist Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, concocted the tale. By drawing on newly discovered documents, this article demonstrates that Brown originally attributed Glasgow’s enslavement to kidnapping by deceit, not to a Black seamen law. Furthermore, an examination of British diplomatic dispatches and the details of the Black seaman law operating in Savannah at that time posits the likelihood that Glasgow became enslaved by deception rather than law. What do we make of these findings? Instead of marshalling them to confirm Chamerovzow as the story’s creator, this article speculates that John Brown himself invented the Glasgow story and imagines a transatlantic Black political circuitry connecting England and Canada.
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Rothman, Adam. "Fugitive Slaves in Counterpoint." Reviews in American History 47, no. 3 (2019): 363–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rah.2019.0051.

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Pargas, Damian Alan. "“Urban Refugees: Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Informal Freedom in the American South”." Journal of Early American History 7, no. 3 (November 8, 2017): 262–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00703002.

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Slave flight in the antebellum South did not always coincide with the political geography of freedom. Indeed, spaces and places within the South attracted the largest number of fugitive slaves, especially southern cities, where runaway slaves attempted to pass for free blacks. Disguising themselves within the slaveholding states rather than risk long-distance flight attempts to formally free territories such as the northern us, Canada, and Mexico, fugitive slaves in southern cities attempted to escape slavery by crafting clandestine lives for themselves in what I am calling “informal” freedom—a freedom that did not exist on paper and had no legal underpinnings, but that existed in practice, in the shadows. This article briefly examines the experiences of fugitive slaves who fled to southern cities in the antebellum period (roughly 1800–1860). It touches upon themes such as the motivations for fleeing to urban areas, the networks that facilitated such flight attempts, and, most importantly, the lot of runaway slaves after arrival in urban areas.
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Hu, Xiangyu. "The Evolution of Early Qing Regulations on Fugitive Slaves." Modern China 46, no. 6 (December 6, 2019): 642–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700419890391.

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The early Qing regulations on fugitive slaves, which originated in pre-1644 Manchu society, aimed to stop banner slaves from escaping. Because very harsh punishments were imposed on both those who harbored fugitive slaves as well as the harborers’ neighbors (both of whom were mainly Han), these regulations led to many tragedies among the Han population and became a key site of Manchu-Han conflict during the Shunzhi and Kangxi reigns. Scholars have thus tended to see them as representative of Manchu alien rule. Unlike previous scholars’ perspectives that emphasize the early Qing rulers’ cruelty toward the Han population in implementing the fugitive regulations, this article demonstrates that Qing rulers, including Dorgon, Shunzhi, and Oboi, protected the interests of the Han population, and that Han legal principles eventually prevailed.
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Figueiredo, Aldrin Moura de. "Um Natal de negros: esboço etnográfico sobre um ritual religioso num quilombo amazônico." Revista de Antropologia 38, no. 2 (December 30, 1995): 207–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.1995.111569.

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This article intends to approximate the Anthropology and the History through the description of a religious ritual lived by descendents of ancient fugitive slaves of Curuá river, dístrict of Alenquer, Médio-Amazonas paraense, who had lived in that region since middle-eighteen century . Therefore, we try to penetrate into the meanders of one of the most important feasts of Christisnity - Christmas - and in its reorganization in the daily life of an amazon quilombo, arranging several temporalities, recreating biblical passages in the light of black human experience in the community of fugitive slaves
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Torpy, Janet M. "A Ride for Liberty—The Fugitive Slaves." JAMA 303, no. 24 (June 23, 2010): 2447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.713.

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Walser, Hannah. "Under Description: The Fugitive Slave Advertisement as Genre." American Literature 92, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 61–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056595.

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Abstract This essay analyzes the discourse of the fugitive slave advertisement (FSA) to argue that these texts form what I call a “genre of personhood.” Centered on physical and behavioral descriptions of escaped slaves, FSAs offer a window into the heuristics that slaveholders used to identify, explain, and anticipate slaves’ behavior in the antebellum era, constructing an implicit model of enslaved personhood by means of consistent syntactic patterns and semantic tropes. I argue for the continuity of these texts’ descriptive and scriptive (or instructive) functions, finding that FSAs conscript the white reader into searching for a fugitive not only through overt appeals but by structuring the reader’s perceptual experiences via linguistic cues. Ultimately, the essay not only excavates the opportunistic and incomplete construction of personhood from heterogeneous materials but also reveals the interdependence of literary description and extraliterary genres like the FSA.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fugitive slaves and agency"

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Silva, Martiniano José. "Quilombos do Brasil Central : violência e resistência escrava, 1719 - 1888 /." Goiânia : Kelps, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/475377346.pdf.

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Millot, Marie-Hélène. "Esclaves fugitifs et abolition durant la guerre de sécession aux Etats-Unis, 1861-1863." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024PA030073.

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Cette étude s’inscrit dans le courant de l’historiographie étatsunienne s’intéressant à l’agentivité des esclaves, en choisissant un angle pour répondre à une question principale : de quelle façon l’action des esclaves fugitifs a-t-elle exercé une influence sur le processus d’émancipation au cours de la guerre de Sécession ? Cette recherche s’est intéressée à la façon dont l’action des fugitifs qui gagnaient les lignes de l’armée et les navires de la marine avait conduit, au tout début de la guerre, l’exécutif et les républicains au Congrès à élaborer des stratégies pour émanciper certains esclaves par nécessité militaire. Elle a apporté une connaissance plus détaillée de la contribution militaire des fugitifs, ou contrebandes, lors d’opérations amphibies, une contribution parfois cruciale. Au Congrès, les républicains ont pu mettre ces contributions en valeur, dénoncer les commandants hostiles aux fugitifs et déterminer qu’il était nécessaire d’incorporer les esclaves émancipés dans le service militaire. L’émancipation n’était pas seulement fondée sur un principe moral, l’Union était redevable aux esclaves fugitifs, dans un contexte militaire dégradé
This study is part of the trend of historiography in the United States interested in slave agency, by choosing an angle to answer a main question: how did the action of fugitive slaves exert an influence on the process of emancipation during the Civil War? This research focused on how the action of fugitives who made their way to the lines of the army and the ships of the navy had led, at the very beginning of the war, the executive branch and Republicans in Congress to develop strategies to emancipate some slaves out of military necessity. It provided a more detailed knowledge of the military contribution of fugitives, or contrabands, during amphibious operations, a contribution that was sometimes crucial. In Congress, Republicans were able to highlight these contributions, denounce commanders hostile to fugitives, and determine that it was necessary to incorporate emancipated slaves into military service. Emancipation was not only based on a moral principle, the Union was indebted to the fugitive slaves, in a degraded military context
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Konhaus, Timothy P. "Freedom road black refugee settlements in northwestern Pennsylvania, 1820-1870 /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10924.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2010.
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Wallace, Shaun. "Fugitive slave advertisements and the rebelliousness of enslaved people in Georgia and Maryland, 1790-1810." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26591.

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This dissertation is a systematic investigation of fugitive slave advertisements aiming to understand the nature of fugitives’ rebelliousness in Georgia and Maryland between 1790 and 1810. Hitherto, historical inquiry pertaining to slave fugitivity has focused on other states and other times. This study provides a close reading of 5,567 advertisements pertaining to runaway slaves and analyses extracted data pertaining to the prosopography of 1,832 fugitives and their fugitivity. Its main research questions focus on advertisements as manifest records of rebellion. Who were the fugitives? What do the fugitive slave advertisements reveal about enslaved people’s contestation of slaveholders’ authority? The principal findings are as follows. First, the typography and iconography of fugitive slave advertisements were expressly intended to undermine the individualism and agency of enslaved people. Second, with regard to Georgia and Maryland, while there were spikes between 1796 and 1798 and 1800 and 1801, fugitivity was a daily occurrence, and thus a normative act of rebellion distinct from insurrection. Third, quantitative analysis indicated fugitives were typically young males, in their twenties, likely to escape at any time of the year; Georgia fugitives were more likely to escape in groups. Fourth, qualitative analysis of advertisers’ descriptions of fugitives revealed evidence of challenges to their authority. Depictions of fugitives’ character and remarks or notes on their behaviour constitute evidence of observed characteristics. From the advertisers’ perspective slaves were at their most dangerous when they could read and write or when they were skilled in deception. The “artful” fugitive in particular possessed many skills, sometimes including literacy, which could be used to defy the power that kept him or her in subjection. Fifth, further investigation established clear linkages between literacy and fugitives’ rebelliousness. Qualitative studies to date speak of slave literacy’s theoretical liberating and empowering effects but do not provide tangible accounts of who the literate slaves were or consider literacy as a factor in rebelliousness. The dissertation identified 36 literate slaves in Maryland and 9 in Georgia, and statistical analysis suggested 3.6 percent of US fugitive slaves were literate. Finally, it was evident that literacy was part of a larger contest to circumvent slaveholder authority and attain self-empowerment. Fugitivity itself was the outcome of a history of contestation that might be hidden from history were it not for the advertisements themselves.
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Garbutt, Tara L. "Found Missing: Fugitive Slaves, Jailer ads, and Surveillance in Antebellum New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2405.

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This paper explores fugitive slave advertisements from the pages of the New Orleans Argus in 1828. As the main repository for runaway slave advertisements in New Orleans at the time, the Argus played a critical role in policing and surveillance of the city’s enslaved population just as New Orleans was becoming the largest slave market in the South. Using the Argus as well as historians’ accounts of the city, this thesis argues that as the market in enslaved people grew, slave owners depended upon local jailers in tandem with papers like the Argus, to police the enslaved population. The large volume of these advertisements, however, also testifies to enslaved people’s frequent rejection of bondage. This thesis is designed primarily as an index of the existing ads for 1828 with the aim of assisting further research into these sources.
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Sorensen, Leni Ashmore. "Absconded: Fugitive slaves in the "Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623486.

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In the antebellum period Richmond, Virginia newspapers ran advertisements for runaway slaves. Most of the ads concerned individuals absconded from outlying counties, distant regions of the state, or nearby states. These short notices have been used frequently to describe and discuss runaways and the link between flight and freedom in Virginia. In contrast to the brief newspaper entries the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844 provides names and detailed descriptions of nine hundred-thirty-five runaways all of whom lived in the city and were reported within the city precincts during one ten year period. The Daybook is a hand written record consisting of entries made by the Watchmen on duty each day. its pages are "A Memorandum of Robberies and Runaways" for the whole city and in addition to fugitive slaves list lost and stolen clothing, food, textiles, bank notes, fires and murder. Chapter 1 discusses the historiography of runaway slaves and the ways that the Daybook data allows a close examination of African American resistance in an urban setting. Chapter 2 explores the geography and look of the city of Richmond in the 1830s and early 40s. Chapter 3 closely examines the fugitives themselves, and Chapter 4 explores the context of laws and restrictions under which the black population, slave and free, lived. Chapter 5 describes the varied strategies the enslaved population, bound in kinship and friendship to the free black population, used to successfully hide within the city and segues into the transcribed complete text of the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard. 1834--1844.
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Sword, Kirsten Denise. "Wayward wives, runaway slaves and the limits of patriarchal authority in early America." Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53820390.html.

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North, Colin. "Agency In Truancy: Runaway Slaves and the Power of Negotiation In the United States, 1736-1840." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32399.

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Historians of the American South have been diverse in their descriptions of the master-slave relationship over the last half-century, and have engaged in lengthy discussions in an attempt to answer the intricate question of what life was like between slaves and their masters. The phenomenon of slave runaways has perhaps offered the most convincing evidence of the troubles on southern plantations, which has been used in recent decades to emphasize negotiation and agency in the shaping of master-slave relations. The last twenty years have been consequently marked by a plethora of studies that accentuate non-traditional slave holding as it becomes clearer that masters had to compromise with their human chattel. Through an examination 9,975 runaway slave advertisements and 943 testimonies of former slaves, this study illustrates how black bondsmen absented themselves so to negotiate the terms of their working and living conditions. It traces the acts of individual slave runaways in place of broader generalizations that have for a long time contributed to some of the myths and legends of American slavery through examination of the many reasons that slaves chose to stay in bondage.
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Valerio, Miguel A. ""Kings of the Kongo, Slaves of the Virgin Mary: Black Religious Confraternities Performing Cultural Agency in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic"." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500220110065696.

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Gleason, Johanna. "The underground railroad." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/685.

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Books on the topic "Fugitive slaves and agency"

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1949-, Finkelman Paul, ed. Fugitive slaves. New York: Garland, 1989.

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Colonial Church and School Society. Mission to the Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Mission to the fugitive slaves in Canada. [London: s.n., 1987.

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1941-, Price Richard, ed. Maroon societies: Rebel slave communities in the Americas. 3rd ed. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

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Owens, Tom. Traveling on the freedom machines of the transportation age. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2003.

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1949-, Finkelman Paul, ed. Fugitive slaves and American courts: The pamphlet literature. New York: Garland Pub., 1988.

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Riedel, Oswaldo de Oliveira. Perspectiva antropológica do escravo no Ceará. Fortaleza, Ceará: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 1988.

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Riedel, Oswaldo de Oliveira. Perspectiva antropológica do escravo no Ceará. Fortaleza, Ceará: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 1988.

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Pálsson, Gísli. Hans Jónatan: Madurinn sem stal sjalfum ser. Reykjavik: Mál og Menning, 2014.

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Lazaroni, Dalva. Quilombos e tiradentes na Baixada Fluminense. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Codpoe, 1991.

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Drew, Benjamin. The Refugee, or, The narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada. Boston: J.P. Jewett, 1985.

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Klestil, Matthias. "Claiming (through) Space: Topographies of Enslavement, the Literary Heterotopia of the Underground Railroad, and the Co-agency of the Non-human." In Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature, 45–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82102-9_2.

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AbstractThis chapter reads the Underground Railroad ecocritically as a literary heterotopia (Foucault) of the fugitive slave narrative that became vital to an African American spatial and environmental imagination. A turn to a variety of texts ranging from abolitionist writing to slave narratives by Bayley (1825), Curry (1840), Douglass (1845), Bibb (1849), and J. Brown (1855) demonstrates that this literary heterotopia became a means of claiming (through) space in a twofold sense. First, it enabled fugitives’ reclaiming themselves by reinterpreting relations between space and body, and by subversively playing with an antebellum popular discourse of the “Liberty Line.” Second, this subversive play provided a means of claiming space in the sense of imagining a literary Underground Railroad, which narrators could employ as a “discursive loophole” to express African American environmental knowledge.
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Shaw, Brent D. "Fugitive Slaves and Maroon Communities." In Spartacus and the Slave Wars, 51–68. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12161-5_7.

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"Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service." In Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery. Schlager Group Inc., 2024. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844087.book-part-048.

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Under Article 4, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution, the so- called “fugitive slave” clause, masters and their agents held a right to track down runaway slaves in free states and take them back to the South. Congress had affirmed that right in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, which included stiff penalties on those who aided fugitives during their escape. The abolitionist and national statesman Salmon P. Chase made a name for himself by challenging the fugitive slave law, a task that became more daunting after 1842, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Prigg v. Pennsylvania that the Fugitive Slave Act was indeed constitutional. In 1847 Chase asked the Court to revisit their Prigg decision in Jones v. Van Zandt, where he defended a person accused of harboring fugitive slaves.
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Barker, Gordon S. "Revisiting “British Principle Talk”." In Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, 34–69. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056036.003.0003.

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This chapter explores the meaning of fugitive slave freedom in Canada West during the antebellum and Civil War era by examining the legal framework relating to slavery and race that emerged in what is now modern-day Ontario. Changes in statutory law, jurisprudence, and British free soil diplomacy will be addressed, revealing the evolution of Canada West as a safe haven from which few fugitive slaves were taken by slave catchers or state-sanctioned extradition. The chapter discusses what freedom on the ground meant for early black Canadians in terms of political rights, access to courts, education, landownership, employment, religious worship, participation in the militia, and the enjoyment of public places and services. Particular attention is given to the agency exercised by fugitive slave refugees and other black Canadians in shaping their own freedom and building new lives for themselves and their children, in sustaining Canada West as a beacon of freedom for others still enslaved in the American South, and in combatting race prejudice, which at times differed little from that prevailing south of the border.
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"Prigg v. Pennsylvania." In Milestone Documents of the Supreme Court. Schlager Group Inc., 2023. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306870.book-part-010.

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Prigg v. Pennsylvania was the first decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution and also the first decision to consider the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. In his “opinion of the Court,” Justice Joseph Story of Massachusetts reached six major conclusions: that the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was constitutional in all its provisions; that no state could pass any law that added requirements to the federal law or impeded the return of fugitive slaves, such as requiring that a state judge hear the case; that masters or their agents had a constitutional right of self-help (the technical term was “recaption”) to seize any fugitive slave anywhere and to bring that slave back to the South and that this could be done without complying with the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act or even bringing the alleged fugitive before a judge; that if a captured fugitive slave was brought before a judge, he or she was entitled to only a summary proceeding to determine whether he or she was the person described in the papers provided by the master; that a judge was not to decide whether the person before him was a slave or free but only whether he or she was the person described in the papers; and that state officials should enforce but could not be required to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
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"Prigg v. Pennsylvania." In Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery. Schlager Group Inc., 2024. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844087.book-part-043.

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Prigg v. Pennsylvania was the first decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution and also the first decision to consider the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. In his “opinion of the Court,” Justice Joseph Story of Massachusetts reached six major conclusions: that the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was constitutional in all its provisions; that no state could pass any law that added requirements to the federal law or impeded the return of fugitive slaves, such as requiring that a state judge hear the case; that masters or their agents had a constitutional right of self-help (the technical term was “recaption”) to seize any fugitive slave anywhere and to bring that slave back to the South and that this could be done without complying with the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act or even bringing the alleged fugitive before a judge; that if a captured fugitive slave was brought before a judge, he or she was entitled to only a summary proceeding to determine whether he or she was the person described in the papers provided by the master; that a judge was not to decide whether the person before him was a slave or free but only whether he or she was the person described in the papers; and that state officials should enforce but could not be required to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
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"Prigg v. Pennsylvania 1842." In Milestone Documents in African American History. Schlager Group Inc., 2010. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306153.book-part-023.

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Prigg v. Pennsylvania was the fi rst decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution and also the fi rst decision to consider the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. In his “opinion of the Court,” Justice Joseph Story of Massachusetts reached six major conclusions: that the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was constitutional in all its provisions; that no state could pass any law that added requirements to the federal law or impeded the return of fugitive slaves, such as requiring that a state judge hear the case; that masters or their agents had a constitutional right of selfhelp (the technical term was “recaption”) to seize any fugitive slave anywhere and to bring that slave back to the South and that this could be done without complying with the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act or even bringing the alleged fugitive before a judge; that if a captured fugitive slave was brought before a judge, he or she was entitled to only a summary proceeding to determine whether he or she was the person described in the papers provided by the master; that a judge was not to decide whether the person before him was a slave or free but only whether he or she was the person described in the papers; and that state offi cials should enforce but could not be required to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Douglass, Frederick. "Introduced to The Abolitionists." In Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198835325.003.0025.

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Anti-Slavery Convention at Nantucket — First Speech — Much Sensation — Extraordinary Speech of Mr. Garrison — Anti-Slavery Agency — Youthful Enthusiasm — Fugitive Slaveship doubted — Experience in Slavery written — Danger of Recapture.
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Grow, Matthew J. "Fugitive Slaves." In "Liberty to the Downtrodden", 113–27. Yale University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300136104.003.0008.

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"FUGITIVE SLAVES." In Lyrical Liberators, 47–107. Ohio University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tv47.8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Fugitive slaves and agency"

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Oppenheimer, Nat, and Luis C. deBaca. "Ending the Market for Human Slavery Through Design." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.1797.

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<p>The design and construction of structures throughout history has too often been realized through the labor of enslaved people, both in the direct construction of these structures and in the procurement and fabrication of building materials. This is as true today as it was at the time of the pyramids.</p><p>Despite the challenges, the design and construction industries have a moral and ethical obligation to eradicate modern human trafficking practices. If done right, this shift will also lead to commercial advances.</p><p>Led by the Grace Farms Foundation, a Connecticut-based non-profit organization, a working group composed of design professionals, builders, owners, and academics has set out to eliminate the use of modern slaves within the built environment through awareness, agency, and tangible tools. Although inspired by the success of the green building movement, this initiative does not use the past as a template. Rather, we are committed to work with the most advanced tracking and aggregation technology to give owners, builders, and designers the tools they need to allow for clear and concise integration of real-time data into design and construction documents.</p><p>This paper summarizes the history of the issue, the moral, ethical, and commercial call to action, and the tangible solutions – both existing and emergent – in the fight against modern-day slavery in the design and construction industries.</p><p>Our intent is to present this material via a panel discussion. The panel will include an owner, an international owner’s representative, a builder, a big data specialist, an architect, an engineer, and a writer/academic who will act as moderator.</p>
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Calad, C., T. Buckinham, E. Mulligan, M. Annab, P. Sarma, D. Betancourt, C. Uribe, H. Solano, and J. Rafiee. "Automation of Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimates Associated with Natural Gas Production in the Appalachian Basin." In SPE Energy Transition Symposium. SPE, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/221400-ms.

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Abstract This study seeks to improve the quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from unconventional natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin, covering Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). The goal is to automate the calculation process for compliance with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), corporate sustainability reporting, and internal monitoring for emissions reduction targets. Traditionally, GHG emissions are manually computed once a year and are often calculated by third-party consultants, reducing transparency in calculation approaches. The development of an on-demand GHG emissions inventory enables real-time identification of emission-intensive processes, guiding strategic decisions for emissions mitigation and methane intensity reductions. In this project, we employed Python and SQL scripts to map activity data related to process and fugitive emissions, including pneumatic devices, drilling and completions combustion, equipment leaks, liquids unloading, dehydrators, and flaring, into US EPA Subpart W formulas. The result is an annualized carbon footprint calculated at the well pad level, providing comprehensive insights into component gasses (CO2, CH4, and N2O), production-based carbon and methane intensities, and emissions contributions by emission source. Automation improved the efficiency and accuracy of the emissions calculation workflow, generating an updated carbon footprint in a runtime under 5 minutes. Additionally, the inclusion of emissions-generating events overlooked due to human error substantially improved the quality of the emissions footprint. Lastly, the employment of data analytics on all calculation inputs and outputs aided in identifying outliers that required modification. The GHG calculation tool enhances accuracy, transparency, and consistency while minimizing the time invested in GHG estimations, allowing teams to redirect their efforts toward value-added activities. Next steps in the project include detailed emissions forecasting, which facilitates determining the most cost-effective emissions reduction strategy. The mapping of activity data into GHG estimation models was completed within six weeks, with additional time spent in result validation against previous manual calculations. After an initial configuration, data mappings do not require ongoing updates, establishing a fully automated GHG calculation process. This advancement enables efficiency and reliability in monitoring and reporting GHG emissions. Additionally, the development of a granular carbon footprint on an emission source basis enables detailed, source-level emissions forecasting to support future decisions around emission reduction projects.
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