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The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery

The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery

Blackett, R. J. M.

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Series: Slaveries Since Emancipation

Black American HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1108407773
ISBN13: 9781108407779
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 25 2018
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.27 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive slaves had on the politics of the critical decade leading up to the Civil War. Through the close reading of diverse sources ranging from government documents to personal accounts, Richard J. M. Blackett traces the decisions of slaves to escape, the actions of those who assisted them, the many ways black communities responded to the capture of fugitive slaves, and how local laws either buttressed or undermined enforcement of the federal law. Every effort to enforce the law in northern communities produced levels of subversion that generated national debate so much so that, on the eve of secession, many in the South, looking back on the decade, could argue that the law had been effectively subverted by those individuals and states who assisted fleeing slaves.

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