Rebels and runaways
Subtitle: slave resistance in nineteenth-century Florida
By: Larry Eugene Rivers
Series: New Black Studies Series
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780252036910
Subjects: Slave insurrections; Social conditions; Fugitive slaves; Slaves; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Resistance by wiles; title: Day-to-day resistance; title: Stepping up the degrees of resistance; title: Running away; title: Away without leave; title: A yearning for freedom; title: Destinations of runaways; title: Flight away from Florida; title: In search of kinfolk and loved ones; title: Catch the runaway; title: Violent resistance; title: Slave violence; title: The Second Seminole War; title: The Civil War.