Title: Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Race relations, Resistance to Government, Whites, Slavery, Slaves, Slave insurrections, Free African Americans, Antislavery movements, Political activity, History, Chesapeake bay (md. and va.), Maryland, politics and government, Virginia, politics and government, White people
Places: Delaware, Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)