Fugitive Slaves And The Unfinished American Revolution Eight Cases 18481856
Publisher: McFarland & Co  Inc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780786469871
Description: "This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged after the guns went silent. Eight fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence"--Provided by publisher.