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Ericson, David F. "The United States Military, State Development, and Slavery in the Early Republic." Studies in American Political Development 31, no. 1 (2017): 130–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x17000049.

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The U.S. military was the principal agent of American state development in the seven decades between 1791 and 1861. It fought wars, removed Native Americans, built internal improvements, expedited frontier settlement, deterred slave revolts, returned fugitive slaves, and protected existing property relations. These activities promoted state development along multiple axes, increasing the administrative capacities, institutional autonomy, political legitimacy, governing authority, and coercive powers of the American state. Unfortunately, the American political development literature has largely
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SCHERMERHORN, CALVIN. "Arguing Slavery's Narrative: Southern Regionalists, Ex-slave Autobiographers, and the Contested Literary Representations of the Peculiar Institution, 1824–1849." Journal of American Studies 46, no. 4 (2012): 1009–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002187581100140x.

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AbstractIn the twenty-five years before 1850, southern writers of regional literature and ex-slave autobiographers constructed a narrative of United States slavery that was mutually contradictory and yet mutually influential. That process involved a dynamic hybridization of genres in which authors contested meanings of slavery, arriving at opposing conclusions. They nevertheless focussed on family and the South's distinctive culture. This article explores the dialectic of that argument and contends that white regionalists created a plantation-paternalist romance to which African American ex-sl
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Fe, Marina. "Los fantasmas de Beloved." Anuario de Letras Modernas 14 (July 31, 2009): 125–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ffyl.01860526p.2008.14.679.

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Tony Morrison’s novel is inspired in the real story of a fugitive slave, Margaret Garner, and can be considered a ghost story belonging to the African American oral tradition as well as a slave narrative. In it, Morrison wants to break the silence around the dreadful events that took place in the lives of millions of black slaves in The United States of America. Her characters must learn to "speak the unspeakable" in order to exorcise the demons of slavery through "rememory", the painful remembrance of the past that haunts not only the black community but the whole history of this nation. Morr
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Knowles, Helen J. "Seeing the Light: Lysander Spooner's Increasingly Popular Constitutionalism." Law and History Review 31, no. 3 (2013): 531–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248013000242.

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On Tuesday July 4, 1854, it was hot and humid at Harmony Grove; “the heat of the weather…was extreme.” But this did not deter a large audience from gathering at this location in Framingham, Massachusetts. This was the spot upon which many of them had assembled, under the organization of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, for the past 8 years. They came by crowded railroad cars (from Boston, Milford, and Worcester), and by horse and carriage from many other surrounding towns, eager to hear speeches by prominent members of the antislavery community. William Lloyd Garrison was not the first
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Filimonova, Maria. "Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825): Three-Time Presidential Candidate of the United States." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 3 (2022): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640020236-7.

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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney is one of the forgotten “founding fathers” of the United States. His diverse military, political and diplomatic activities have been poorly studied in American historiography and have received little attention on the part of Russian Americanists. The study of his biography is particularly relevant in the light of current trends in American society, where the activities of the “founding fathers” are viewed narrowly, solely through the prism of slavery and racism. Hence the aim of this article is to use the biography of a Southerner from the revolutionary era to illus
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Baibakova, Larisa Vilorovna. "Peculiarities of perception by former slaves of their social status in the era of slavery (based on the collection of their memoirs in the Library of US Congress)." Исторический журнал: научные исследования, no. 4 (April 2020): 131–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0609.2020.4.33626.

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Slavery has always been condemned across the world; however in the end of the XX century, such canonical concept was rectified based on the extensive examination by American scholars of compilation of narratives of the former slaves collected in 1930s in the United States. At that time, 2,300 former slaves from 17 states were interviewed about their life in the era of slavery. Later, these interviews were placed in open access on the website of the Library of US Congress, reconstructing a contradictory picture of everyday life of African-Americans in the conditions of plantation economy: some
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Palmateer Pennee, Donna. "Benjamin Drew and Samuel Gridley Howe on Race Relations in Early Ontario: Mythologizing and Debunking Canada West’s “Moral Superiority”." Journal of Canadian Studies 56, no. 1 (2022): 99–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs-2020-0025.

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This essay examines the respective mythologizing and debunking of Canada’s “moral superiority” over the United States on matters of white-Black race relations in Benjamin Drew’s 1856 The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada and Samuel Gridley Howe’s 1864 The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West. Their accounts of the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and American Civil War on Canadian and American political reputations are instructive. The historical presence of Black people in the making of Ontario’s history and its relationship to American antebellum history helps t
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Shumakov, Andrey A. "Gabriel’s plot of 1800: the story of the failed uprising." Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates 8, no. 3 (2022): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2411-197x-2022-8-3-125-142.

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This article analyzes one of the most significant, yet understudied events in African-American history. The Virginia Conspiracy or the Gabriel Conspiracy of 1800 is considered the most famous case of organizing a mass armed uprising of slaves in the United States. Inspired by the ideas and examples of the American, Great French and Haitian revolutions, black slaves tried not just to raise an uprising and achieve liberation, but actually challenged the slave-owning orders of the entire white South. The scale and geography of the conspiracy leave no doubt that it originally implied a mass armed
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Rasiah, Rasiah, Ansor Putra, Fina Amalia Masri, Arman Arman, and Suci Rahmi Pardilla. "JUST LIKE BLACK, ONLY BETTER: POOR WHITE IN ANTEBELLUM SOUTH OF AMERICA DEPICTED IN SOLOMON NORTHUP’S NOVEL TWELVE YEARS AS A SLAVE." Diksi 29, no. 1 (2021): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/diksi.v29i1.33081.

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(Title: Just Like Black, Only Better: Poor White in Antebellum South of America Depicted in Solomon Northup’s Novel “Twelve Years as A Slave”). Antebellum era, the period before the Civil War occured, or before the year 1861, in the United States is used to relate to the enslavement of black American. In fact, the era was not merely about black, but also poor white. This study is purposed to describe the poor whites’ life in antebellum America as reflected in Twelve Years As A Slave (1855), a narrative biography novel written by Solomon Northup. Set up the story in New York, Washingotn DC, and
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KITLV, Redactie. "Book Reviews." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 71, no. 1-2 (1997): 107–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002619.

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-Peter Hulme, Polly Pattullo, Last resorts: The cost of tourism in the Caribbean. London: Cassell/Latin America Bureau and Kingston: Ian Randle, 1996. xiii + 220 pp.-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Édouard Glissant, Introduction à une poétique du Divers. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1995. 106 pp.-Bruce King, Tejumola Olaniyan, Scars of conquest / Masks of resistance: The invention of cultural identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean drama. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii + 196 pp.-Sidney W. Mintz, Raymond T. Smith, The Matrifocal family: Power, pluralism an
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fugitive slaves – United States – Biography"

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

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Lecaudey, Hélène. "Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43902.

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In the last twenty years, studies in Afro-American slavery have given special attention to the slave community and culture. They have emphasized the slaves' control over their lives, while glossing over the brutality of the institution of slavery. Slave women have been ignored until very recently, and those few historians who studied their lives have applied the same categories of inquiry used by traditional historians with a male perspective. The topic of interracial sexual relations crystallizes this problem. This issue has been left aside in most scholarly studies and, when mentioned, addre
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Roddy, Rhonda Kay. "In search of the self: An analysis of Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2262.

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In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publicatio
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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 esc
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BANKER, CHARLES AUGUST. "SALMON P. CHASE, LEGAL COUNSEL FOR FUGITIVE SLAVES: ANTISLAVERY IDEOLOGY AS A LAWYER'S CREATION ("IN RE MATILDA")." Thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13206.

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Thango, Linda Thokozile. "Scratching where it itches in the autobiographies of Harriet Jacob's incidents in the life of a slave girl and Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24470.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Johannesburg, 2017<br>Set within a revisionist and feminist context, this thesis seeks to draw parallels in the autobiographical texts of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) written by an African American ex-enslaved and Schizophrene (2011) penned by Bhanu Kapil, a British born Asian American, a descendant of a generation that live (d) through/with ‘what happened in a particular country on a partic
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Bishop, Meghan Linsley. "Slave to Freewoman and Back Again: Kitty Payne and Antebellum Kidnapping." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1009.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007.<br>Title from screen (viewed June 11, 2007). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-118).
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Nyhuis, Jeremiah E. ""A field lately ploughed" : the expressive landscapes of gender and race in the antebellum slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and William Grimes." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3628.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>The complicated state wherein ex-slaves found themselves, as depicted in the narratives of Bibb, Jacobs, and others, problematizes the dualistic relationship between North and South that the genre’s structural components work to enforce, forging an odyssey that, although sometimes still spiritual in nature, does not offer the type of resolutions that might easily persuade fellow slaves to abandon their masters and seek a similarly ambiguous identity in the so-called “free” land of the North. For blacks and especially fugitive slaves,
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Books on the topic "Fugitive slaves – United States – Biography"

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N, Boney F., ed. Slave life in Georgia: A narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave. Beehive Press, 1991.

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Elliott, Clarke George, ed. The refugee: The narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada. Dundurn Press, 2008.

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Fleischner, Jennifer. I was born a slave: The story of Harriet Jacobs. Millbrook Press, 1997.

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Collison, Gary Lee. Shadrach Minkins: From fugitive slave to citizen. Harvard University Press, 1997.

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Smallwood, Thomas. A narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured man). Mercury Press, 2000.

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Wells, Brown William. The narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Dover Publications, 2003.

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Wells, Brown William. The narrative of William W. Brown: A fugitive slave. ReadaClassic.com, 2010.

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Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: The defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave. Scholastic, 1989.

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Edward, Tivnan, ed. Escape from slavery: The true story of my ten years in captivity--and my journey to freedom in America. St. Martin's Press, 2003.

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Magdalena, Brown Maria, ed. Isaac Johnson: From slave to stonecutter. Dutton, 1995.

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Davis, David Brion. "The Politics of Slavery in the United States." In Inhuman Bondage. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195140736.003.0015.

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Abstract Racial Slavery was so central to American politics and foreign policy— indeed, to all issues involving power in the period between the Revolution and Civil War—that it would take a whole series of chapters or even a separate book to cover most of the ground. In this chapter I will limit myself to a brief discussion of American foreign policy, the Missouri Crisis of 1819– 21, the impact on America and especially the South of Britain’s emancipation of some eight hundred thousand slaves, and then, since we have already touched on the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the issues dramatized by t
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"Joseph Story: “Privileges of Citizens—Fugitives—Slaves”." In Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery. Schlager Group Inc., 2024. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844087.book-part-036.

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Joseph Story was, above all, a scholarly justice devoted to the expansion of national power and the common law. These aspects of his jurisprudence are highlighted in various documents. As Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, Story published many of his lectures to educate young lawyers in what he viewed as the proper legal foundations of a republic. The chapter ”Privileges of Citizens—Fugitives—Slaves” in Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833) is an example. In this essay, Story discusses the privileges and immunities clause, the extradition clause, and the fugiti
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"Charles Sumner: “Freedom National; Slavery Sectional” Speech." In Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery. Schlager Group Inc., 2024. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844087.book-part-058.

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Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gave his “Freedom National; Slavery Sectional” speech on August 26, 1852, in front of the United States Senate. Sumner called for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, which Congress had passed in September 1850. The Act was a part of the Compromise of 1850 and extended the original 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required the seizure of slaves who had escaped to free territory and their return to their enslavers. Throughout his long career in politics, Sumner was an ardent abolitionist who fought for his cause. Sumner is often re
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Baumgartner, Alice L. "Fugitive Slaves, Free Soil, and the Contest over Sovereignty in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1821–1867." In Continent in Crisis. Fordham University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531501280.003.0002.

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This essay examines changing conceptions of sovereignty in Mexico and the United States by tracing their evolving policies with respect to fugitive slaves. In the wake of its war with the United States, the Mexican government adopted policies that granted freedom to all enslaved people who set foot on its soil. Territory accorded rights, rather than race. In the United States, the conquest of Mexican territory—the first time that the United States had acquired territory where slavery was abolished by law—also transformed understanding of sovereignty. With the balance of power between the slave
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"Thomas Garrett: Description of Harriet Tubman." In Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery. Schlager Group Inc., 2024. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844087.book-part-104.

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This letter was written in June 1868 by Thomas Garrett, a devout Quaker, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad stationmaster in Wilmington, Delaware. Although Delaware was a slave state, Garrett aided approximately 2,700 fugitive slaves during their journey to freedom. Often, he helped his friend Harriet Tubman, a famous Underground Railroad conductor. Historical documents, especially letters he wrote, show he and Tubman were friends and fellow antislavery crusaders for over seven years. Garrett provided shelter, food, clothing, transportation, and funds for Tubman and the people she helped e
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Varon, Elizabeth R. "Countdown to Jubilee." In Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War. Oxford University PressNew York, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190860608.003.0006.

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Abstract Antietam was the victory Lincoln had waited for, and on September 22, 1862, in keeping with the secret pledge he had made to his cabinet, he promulgated his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The document reiterated the standing offer to loyal slaveholders: if they undertook their own voluntary measures to gradually dismantle slavery, Lincoln would urge Congress to provide them with pecuniary compensation for their lost property and federal aid for colonization of the freedpeople. It reprised the major provisions of the Second Confiscation Act, underscoring that U.S. military forc
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Berger, Jason. "Unadjusted Emancipations." In Xenocitizens. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823287758.003.0005.

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This chapter adds a consideration of the economic horizon to contemporary scholarship that examines the radical and, at times, emancipatory “entanglements” between slaves/ex-slaves and the environment. The chapter’s three sections present a developing arc of “unadjusted emancipations,” tracing various ways that slaves and ex-slaves negotiated and leveraged the antebellum era’s systemic production of bad debts in order to distort or circumvent standard formations of emancipatory logic. The first examines Stowe’s Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) in light of ecological-economic herme
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"Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service." In Schlager Anthology of Black America. Schlager Group Inc., 2021. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306627.book-part-039.

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Reclamation of Fugitives from Service is the name under which the abolitionist lawyer Salmon P. Chase published his 1847 brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Jones v. Van Zandt. The case challenged the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, by which people all over the United States, whether in a slaveholding state or not, were required to return slaves as property to their slaveowners. A former slaveholder named John van Zandt turned abolitionist and began helping the Underground Railroad in Ohio spirit slaves away to Canada in defiance of the act. He was therefore
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"Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself." In Schlager Anthology of Black America. Schlager Group Inc., 2021. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306627.book-part-056.

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Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself is one of many autobiographies composed by former slaves documenting their lives in bondage and their escape to freedom. Henry “Box” Brown was born a slave in Virginia in 1815; he escaped slavery in 1849 after being crated in a box (hence his nickname) in Richmond, Virginia, and shipped to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His story, especially the clever method he devised to flee slavery, made him a popular figure in abolitionist circles. Brown and a white abolitionist named Charles Stearns published the first version of Brown’s autobiogr
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"Joseph Blaney Starkweather: “African Americans Working at Spanish Flat, California Gold Mine”." In Schlager Anthology of Westward Expansion. Schlager Group Inc., 2022. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306641.book-part-025.

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The discovery of gold in California made the territory an immediate focus of migration upon its entry into the United States in 1848. Like all the new territories added with the end of the U.S. War with Mexico, California was a focus of congressional and intellectual arguments over the spread of slavery into the new territory. The Compromise of 1850 eventually allowed California into the union as a free state in return for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, which enforced the return of self-emancipated slaves to their slaveowners and penalized those who harbored fugitives. The constitution
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