Migrants against slavery
Subtitle: Virginians and the nation
By: Philip J. Schwarz.
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Slavery -- Virginia -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century; Public opinion -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Antislavery movements -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Virginia -- Migrations -- History -- 19th century; Whites -- Virginia -- Migrations -- History -- 19th century; Migration, Internal -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Virginia -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Migrants against Slavery Philip J. Schwarz suggests that antislavery migrant Virginians, both the famous - such as fugitive Anthony Burns and abolitionist Edward Coles - and the lesser known, deserve closer scrutiny. Their migration and its aftermath, he argues, intensified the national controversy over human bondage, playing a larger role than previous historians have realized in shaping American identity and in Americans' effort to define the meaning of freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-237) and index.