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Stealing Freedom Along the Mason-Dixon Line: Thomas McCreary, the Notorious Slave Catcher from Maryland

Stealing Freedom Along the Mason-Dixon Line: Thomas McCreary, the Notorious Slave Catcher from Maryland

Diggins, Milt

Paperback

Black American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 0996594442
ISBN13: 9780996594448
Publisher: Maryland Center for History and Culture
Published: Nov 4 2015
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This is the story of Thomas McCreary, a slave catcher from Cecil County, Maryland. Reviled by some, proclaimed a hero by others, he first drew public attention in the late 1840s for a career that peaked a few years after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Living and working as he did at the midpoint between Philadelphia, an important center for assisting fugitive slaves, and Baltimore, a major port in the slave trade, his story illustrates in raw detail the tensions that arose along the border between slavery and freedom just prior to the Civil War. McCreary and his community provide a framework to examine slave catching and kidnapping in the Baltimore-Wilmington-Philadelphia region and how those activities contributed to the nation's political and visceral divide.

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