Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865The Chesapeake formed the cradle of American slavery, but there, too, resistance was born. T. Stephen Whitman, the Price of Freedom, narrates the rise of opposition to the "peculiar institution." The largely white abolition movement, which briefly flowered in ideas and acts of heroism, and the equally heroic and more persistent efforts of slaves and free blacks to throw off their shackles. Here are Benjamin Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison, Daniel Drayton, William Still, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Gabriel, Nat Turner, William Parker, and John Brown, whose fearsome revolts stunned the Tidewater social order. Recounted, too, their freedom and at other times took it, eventually donning Union blue and joining the fight to end slavery by force. |
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Contents
Slavery and the American Revolution | 19 |
Manumitters and WouldBe Emancipators | 45 |
Early Black Challenges to Slavery ru | 73 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865 A Century Foundation Book Series |
| Author | T. Stephen Whitman |
| Contributor | Maryland Historical Society |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Maryland Historical Society, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 22, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0938420968, 9780938420965 |
| Length | 301 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / General History / United States / 19th Century History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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