Challenging slavery in the Chesapeake : Black and White resistance to human bondage, 1775-1865 /
Whitman, T. Stephen,1950-
Maryland Historical Society.
Baltimore, Md. : Maryland Historical Society,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-282) and index.
First Africans in the Chesapeake -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- Manumitters and would-be emancipators -- Early Black challenges to slavery -- A flickering candle -- We got this far by faith -- The two underground railroads -- Civil War and the destruction of slavery.
Slaves
Free African Americans
Whites
Slavery
Government, Resistance to
Slave insurrections
Antislavery movements