Borderland Blacks : two cities in the Niagara region during the final decades of slavery / dann j. Broyld.

"In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progress...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
Main Author: Broyld, dann j (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Series:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
Subjects:
African Americans > New York (State) > Rochester > Social conditions > 19th century.
Black people > Ontario > St. Catharines > Social conditions > 19th century.
Borderlands > History > 19th century.
Transnationalism > History > 19th century.
Rochester (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
St. Catharines (Ont.) > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Rochester (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
St. Catharines (Ont.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Rochester (N.Y.) > Race relations.
St. Catharines (Ont.) > Race relations.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > Rochester > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Transnationalisme > Histoire > 19e siècle.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Black people > Social conditions.
Borderlands.
Emigration and immigration.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Transnationalism.
New York (State) > Rochester.
North America > Niagara Falls Region.
Ontario > St. Catharines.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Setting the stage for the journey: understanding the Niagara region as a fluid frontier
  • 2. Rochester, New York: "Right over the way"
  • 3. St. Catharines, Canada West: "An important place for the oppressed"
  • 4. A border that divides but also unites
  • Epilogue.