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Aiming for Pensacola : Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers / Matthew J. Clavin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780674088221
  • 9780674088238
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Colonial Period -- 2. War of 1812 and Negro Fort -- 3. Interracialism and Resistance -- 4. Running Away -- 5. Underground Railroad -- 6. Civil War -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Colonial Period -- 2. War of 1812 and Negro Fort -- 3. Interracialism and Resistance -- 4. Running Away -- 5. Underground Railroad -- 6. Civil War -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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