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Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake
Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865
ISBN: 9780938420965
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Maryland Historical Society
Edition: illustrated edition
The very cradle of American slavery, the Chesapeake, brought forth vigorous resistance to that terrible institution. Now T. Stephen Whitman describes the ideas, attitudes, and complex human relationships that gave if form and momentum.
Rising from these pages are the idealists …
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This is 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.
