Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865
T. Stephen Whitman
(Author)
Description
A chronological account of nine decades of antislavery activity in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, culminating in the Civil War. Challenging slavery could entail negotiating for freedom by manumission; grasping freedom by flight or insurrection; or uniting with external allies in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, or the Civil War. Free black people also undermined slavery as workers, worshippers, teachers, and writers. Whites who aided black freedom seekers also played their part.
Product Details
Price
$20.00
$18.60
Publisher
Maryland Historical Society
Publish Date
January 01, 2007
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.04 X 8.98 X 0.82 inches | 0.94 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780938420965
About the Author
T. Stephen Whitman is an assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary's University and the author of The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland.