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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fugitive slave"”.
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Finding Onesimus: Recovering the Story of a First-Century Fugitive Slave
… into the experience of a first-century fugitive slave named Onesimus, who is known to us primarily through Paul’s letter to Philemon (Phlm) in the New Testament. Within this broader purpose, this project challenges a popular historical theory for Onesimus’ flight, the so-called …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… the Northern free states and the Southern slave states was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. For decades slaveholders had complained of the difficulties encountered in reclaiming their fugitive slaves and demanded stronger legislation to deal with the problem. Northerners, however, did not …
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Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne
… specificity. Totalizing, the term refers to the slave who fled from the plantation, against the colonial order, that is, the fugitive slave. Specific, in the Haitian lexicography, it stands for a shifty and cunning individual, particularily a " <em>Woule m debò</em> "1. One has to recognize that …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic principles of equality upon which the nation was founded, the struggle for freedom for Black Americans and their natural rights to liberty and …
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NEITHER NORTHERN NOR SOUTHERN: THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1847
This dissertation examines the conflict over slavery and freedom in Philadelphia from 1820 to 1847. As the northernmost southern city in a state that bordered three slave states, Philadelphia maintained a long tradition of abolitionism and fugitive slave activity. Conflicts that arose over fugitive …
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"Don't let de paddle rollers catch you": punishment, control, and resistance in the slave South
This thesis explores the nature of white-slave relations in the U.S. South during the thirty-year period that preceded the Civil War. It asks one central question: How did slaveowners, overseers, patrollers, and nonslaveowners attempt to physically and psychologically punish slaves and control …
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
… of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position of the new economic historians, most …
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From the Yonge Street Riot to the Carding Controversy: Policing and Surveilling the Black Community in Toronto, Canada, 1992-2016
… carding and mass incarceration were derived from slavery, with the goal of limiting the freedom and mobility of Black people. Therefore, an examination of Canada’s historical treatment of Black people is necessary in order to demonstrate how practices rooted in slavery, such as, fugitive slave …
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Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870)
… and compared. Between the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 and the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, advocates were preparing African Americans for full citizenship (suffrage rights, educational access, and home ownership) in these three communities and throughout New York State. Using …
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Fulcrum of the Union: The Border South and the Secession Crisis, 1859-1861
… has led scholars to conclude that these four slaveholding states were safely ensconced in the Union column from the beginning of the crisis that drew the other slaveholding states into the Confederacy. Historians have often simplified the secession crisis in the Border South, minimizing the …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
… and marginalized to counter complicity in Fugitive Slave Law politics. Ultimately, Melville uses the Typee to shed light on American ideas regarding assimilation. And Twain plays the naïve but brash exceptional American abroad to demonstrate the way American travelers see the places and …
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A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature
<p>This dissertation considers maroons—enslaved people who fled from slavery and self-exiled to places like swamps and forests—in the textual and historical worlds of the pre-Civil War United States. I examine a counter-archive of US literature that imagines marronage as offering alternate spaces …
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Congressional Legislation on Slavery During the Civil War
Slavery and the Negro! That subject is by no means dead today. The people in this country are still battling with this problem. Though the times have changed, the facts of the issue are basically the same as a century ago. Witness the present agitation over the Civil Rights Bill! |Today the Negro …