Migrants Against Slavery
Autor: | Schwarz, Philip J |
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EAN: | 9780813920085 |
Sachgruppe: | Medien, Kommunikation |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 264 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.03.2001 |
Untertitel: | Virginians and the Nation |
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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.