Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake
Subtitle: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865
Publisher: Maryland Historical Society
Published: March 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780938420965
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; United States - 19th Century; History / United States / 19th Century; History; History - U.S; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.); Free African Americans; Political activity; Politics and government; Slaves; Whites; History: American
Description: A chronological account of nine decades of antislavery activity in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, culminating in the Civil War. Challenging slavery could entail negotiating for freedom by manumission; grasping freedom by flight or insurrection; or uniting with external allies in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, or the Civil War. Free black people also undermined slavery as workers, worshippers, teachers, and writers. Whites who aided black freedom seekers also played their part.