Illegal Self-Emancipation in the Urban Upper South, 1800-1860

Contrary to common assumptions that self-emancipation by flight was only possible to regions outside the southern states, this article argues that many slaves actively took and preserved their freedom by hiding amongst free African American populations in urban areas. In the late eighteenth and earl...

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Main Author: Viola F. Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Poitiers 2018-12-01
Series:Cahiers du MIMMOC
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mimmoc/2874
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