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Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865
T. Stephen Whitman
ISBN: 9780938420965
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Maryland Historical Society
Edition: illustrated edition
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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 …
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.
| ISBN | 0938420968 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780938420965
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Maryland Historical Society | | Weight (grammes) | 431 | | Imprint | Maryland Historical Society | | Published in | Baltimore | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 13 May 2008 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | F187 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 975.51803 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Interest age | From 17 |
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| 1 | | First Africans in the Chesapeake | | 3 | | 2 | | Slavery and the American Revolution | | 19 | | 3 | | Manumitters and Would-Be Emancipators | | 45 | | 4 | | Early Black Challenges to Slavery | | 73 | | 5 | | A Flickering Candle | | 102 | | 6 | | We Got This Far by Faith | | 135 | | 7 | | The Two Underground Railroads | | 164 | | 8 | | Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery | | 201 | | | | References | | 231 | | | | Bibliography | | 265 | | | | Index | | 283 |
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