Running for Freedom: Slave Runaways in North Carolina, 1775-1840

ISBN-10
0815310056
ISBN-13
9780815310051
Series
Running for Freedom
Category
History
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Author
Freddie L. Parker

Description

Focusing on North Carolina, and making use of detailed 18th and 19th-century newspaper advertisements for nearly 2,800 runaway slaves, explores the origins, growth and distribution of the black population; slave owners, runaways and the law; a physical portrait of runaway slaves; slave personalitie

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