Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Pretends to Be Free: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey

Pretends to Be Free: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey

Hodges, Graham Russell Gao
Brown, Alan Edward

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 0823282155
ISBN13: 9780823282159
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Jan 8 2019
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Pretends to Be Free recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before and during the American Revolution. Through these notices, readers can discover how enslaved blacks chose allegiance during our War for Independence.

Replete with a preface by Edward E. Baptist, the leading scholar of slavery and capitalism and director of a massive project aimed at digitalizing every escape notice, and with a new Introduction and teacher's guide by Graham Hodges, this new edition makes this documentary study more relevant than ever.

Also in

Regional: Middle Atlantic

View All