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The Battle of Negro Fort : the rise and fall of a fugitive slave community / by Clavin, Matthew J.,author.(CARDINAL)801682;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-243) and index.War and resistance -- The British post on Prospect Bluff -- A free black community -- Fighting to the death -- The battle continues -- Slavery or freedom.
Subjects: Negro Fort, Battle of, Fla., 1816.; Fugitive slaves;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Freedom seekers : fugitive slaves in North America, 1800-1860 / by Pargas, Damian Alan,author.(CARDINAL)304393;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292) and index.Introduction -- 1. The changing geography of slavery and freedom -- 2. "Lurking amongst the free Negroes": spaces of informal freedom in the urban South -- 3. "As if their own liberty were at stake": spaces of semi-formal freedom in the northern United States -- 4. "Departure from the house of bondage": spaces of formal freedom in British Canada and Mexico -- Conclusion.In this fascinating book, Damian Alan Pargas introduces a new conceptualization of "spaces of freedom" for fugitive slaves in North America between 1800 and 1860, and answers the questions: How and why did enslaved people flee to -- and navigate -- different destinations throughout the continent, and to what extent did they succeed in evading recapture and reenslavement? Taking a continental approach, this study highlights the diversity of slave flight by conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct -- and continuously evolving -- spaces of freedom. Namely, spaces of informal freedom in the US South, where enslaved people attempted to flee by passing as free blacks; spaces of semi-formal freedom in the US North, where slavery was abolished but the precise status of fugitive slaves was contested; and spaces of formal freedom in Canada and Mexico, where slavery was abolished and runaways were considered legally free and safe from reenslavement.
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Fugitive slave communities; Maroons; Enslaved persons;
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A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp / by Sayers, Daniel O.,author.(CARDINAL)338729; Society for Historical Archaeology.(CARDINAL)273492;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.The Great Dismal Swamp landscape, then and now -- Alienation : a foundational concept -- The architecture of alienation in modern history -- The documented Great Dismal Swamp, 1585-1860 -- Scission communities, canal company laborer communities, and interpretations of their archaeological presence in the Great Dismal Swamp -- Two hundred and fifty years of community praxis in the Great Dismal Swamp : some concluding thoughts.Sayers examines the Great Dismal Swamp's archaeological record from ca. 1600 until the time of the Civil War, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by the thousands of Indigenous Americans, Africa American maroons, free African Americans, enslaved company workers, and outcast Europeans who made the Swamp their home.
Subjects: Archaeology; Natural history; Maroons; Fugitive slave communities;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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City of refuge : slavery and petit marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 / by Nevius, Marcus P.(Marcus Peyton),1983-author.(CARDINAL)835909;
Includes bibliographical references and index."City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources--including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies--to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world"--"Lurking in swamps, woods, or other obscure places" : petit marronage in eastern Virginia and North Carolina in the eighteenth century -- "Liv'd by himself in the desert about 13 years" : slaves, shingles, and the early companies of the Dismal Swamp -- "Lawless sette of villains" : petit marronage and the competition for space in the turn-of-the-century swamp -- "All delinquents in duty" : petit marronage and the Dismal Swamp Canal -- "To manage the business of the swamp" : the informal slave economy, freedom, and unfreedom in the Great Dismal Swamp -- "Intention of which Negroes was to reach the Dismal Swamp" : the Turner Rebellion, rising abolition, and the Dismal's slave labor camp -- "Slaves in the Dismal Swamp" : abolitionists and the Dismal's extractive economy of slavery -- "From log cabin to the pulpit" : William H. Robinson and the late nineteenth-century legacy of petit marronage.
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Fugitive slave communities; Maroons; Enslaved persons;
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Dismal freedom : a history of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp / by Morris, J. Brent,author.(CARDINAL)858855;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-234) and index.The origins of Dismal Swamp maroonage -- Dismal Swamp Maroons in the colonial era -- North American Maroon wars, 1775-1831 -- Maroon life in the Great Dismal Swamp -- Dismal Swamp marronage triumphant -- Epilogue: From dismal freedom to the free dismal."The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons--people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers--established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. This is the first book to fully examine the lives of these maroons and their struggles for liberation"--
Subjects: Maroons; Fugitive slaves; Maroon communities; Free African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 10
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Maroon communities in South Carolina : a documentary record / by Lockley, Timothy James,1971-(CARDINAL)304110;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index.The origins of marronage in South Carolina -- A late colonial burst of marronage, 1765-1774 -- Maroons in the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary eras, 1775-1788 -- A (relatively) peaceful interlude, 1787-1812 -- The final flourishing of marronage, 1813-1829.Maroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness. The phenomenon began as runaway slaves, unable to escape to safe havens in sympathetic colonies, opted instead to band together for survival near the sites of their former enslavement. In this first survey of documentary records of marronage in colonial and antebellum South Carolina, Lockley offers opportunity to assess the unique features and trends of the maroon experience in the Palmetto State. Lockley surveys eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century historical sources gathered from newspaper reports, court proceedings, government and military records, correspondence, and reward advertisements to illustrate the efforts of white South Carolinians to locate maroon communities, defend against raiding parties, and kill or capture runaways living in these societies. -- from publisher marketing.
Subjects: Maroons; Fugitive slaves; Community life; Community life;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Maroon societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas. by Price, Richard,1941-(CARDINAL)143967;
Bibliography: pages 404-416.
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Maroons.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Escape to the city : fugitive slaves in the antebellum urban South / by Müller, Viola Franziska,1987-author.(CARDINAL)873860;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-238) and indexes."Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery"--
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Free Black people; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The price of freedom : how one town stood up to slavery / by Fradin, Judith Bloom,author.(CARDINAL)371960; Fradin, Dennis B.(CARDINAL)145150; Velasquez, Eric,illustrator.(CARDINAL)758942;
Includes bibliographical references.Documents the efforts of an Ohio community to secure the freedom of escaped slave John Price, examining various aspects of Price's escape from Kentucky, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the heroic showdown.940LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Price, John, 1836?-; Fugitive slaves; Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 1858; Quakers; Underground Railroad;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 26
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Gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the Underground Railroad [large print] / by Foner, Eric,1943-(CARDINAL)150964;
Subjects: Large print books.; Antislavery movements; Fugitive slaves; Underground Railroad.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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