Fugitive slaves and the unfinished American Revolution : eight cases, 1848-1856 / Gordon S. Barker.

"This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged after the guns went silent. Eight fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me De...

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Main Author: Barker, Gordon S., 1952-
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
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Physical Description:vii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: fugitive slaves and American Revolution -- William and Ellen Craft: "Running a thousand miles" for inalienable rights -- Rescuing Shadrach: the "noblest deed in Boston since the Boston Tea-Party of 1773" -- Thomas Sims: renewing the revolutionary struggle for American liberties -- William Parker and revolutionary heroes at Christiana -- The Jerry rescue: breaking bondage and saving America in Syracuse -- Rescuing Joshua Glover and guarding American liberties -- Anthony Burns: "Resolution to strike the blow, for freedom or the grave" -- Margaret Garner: tragedy and revolutionary resistance in Cincinnati -- Epilogue: an enduring revolution. 
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