The fugitive's Gibraltar : escaping slaves and abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts /
Grover, Kathryn,1953-
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,
c2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The true ring of freedom" -- Origins -- Fugitives, the sea, and the coasting trade -- The 1820s: beginnings of activism -- The 1930s: organizing antislavery -- The 1840s "caste and the liberal spirit" -- The 1850s: "very poor hunting ground" -- Practical abolitionism.
Fugitive slaves
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements