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Philip J. Schwarz - Migrants Against Slavery, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

Migrants Against Slavery

Virginians and the Nation

Av Philip J. Schwarz

Del i serien Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies

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A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: Whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants in a society grounded in bondage; fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves; free African Americans searched for greater opportunity. In Migrants against Slavery Philip J. Schwarz suggests that antislavery migrant Virginians, both the famous - such as fugitive Anthony Burns and abolitionist Edward Coles - and the lesser known, deserve closer scrutiny. Their migration and its aftermath, he argues, intensified the national controversy over human bondage, playing a larger role than previous historians have realized in shaping American identity and in Americans' effort to define the meaning of freedom.
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PHILIP J. SCHWARZ, Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, is the author of Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865 and Slave Laws in Virginia.

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One of the most interesting implications of Migrants against Slavery is that the much-written-about 'Great Migration' of African Americans from South to North after the turn of the century is actually part of a much longer continuum, stretching back even before the end of slavery. Philip J. Schwarz's work presents considerable new information and much food for thought. - John d'Entremont, Randolph-Macon Woman's College ""This is a quite original approach to the study of slavery in antebellum Virginia.... By telling a series of short biographies, an interesting argument is presented, and it is an excellent supplement to some rather traditional approaches."" - Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester

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