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Aiming for Pensacola : fugitive slaves on the Atlantic and Southern frontiers
- Title
- Aiming for Pensacola : fugitive slaves on the Atlantic and Southern frontiers / Matthew J. Clavin.
- Author
- Clavin, Matthew J.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 16-820 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- 252 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Before the abolition of slavery in the United States, Pensacola, Florida, was the site of extensive and enduring interracial resistance to slavery. In times of peace, fugitive slaves running to and from Pensacola encountered free men and women of various races, ethnicities, and nationalities--including farmers, laborers, mechanics, and seamen--who subsisted on the margins of society and had no vested interest in maintaining slavery or white supremacy. In times of war, they confronted soldiers and sailors who tried to demolish the foundation of slavery entirely. As a result, interracial resistance to slavery survived and often thrived in Pensacola in the century before the Civil War, and when the shockwaves of that revolutionary sectional conflict reverberated across the city, they proved vital to the institution's destruction"--
- Subjects
- Antislavery movements
- Fugitive slaves
- Underground Railroad
- Pensacola (Fla.) > Social conditions
- Pensacola (Fla.) > Race relations
- Antislavery movements > Florida > Pensacola > History
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Fugitive slaves > United States > History
- History
- Florida > Pensacola
- Fugitive slaves > South Atlantic States > History
- Pensacola (Fla.) > History
- United States > South Atlantic States
- Underground Railroad > Florida > Pensacola
- Fugitive slaves > Florida > Pensacola > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-241) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Colonial period -- War of 1812 and Negro Fort -- Interracialism and resistance -- Running away -- Underground Railroad -- Civil War -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-820
- ISBN
- 9780674088221
- 0674088220
- LCCN
- 2015002553
- OCLC
- 905667922
- Author
- Clavin, Matthew J., author.
- Title
- Aiming for Pensacola : fugitive slaves on the Atlantic and Southern frontiers / Matthew J. Clavin.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-241) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-820JFE 17-1047