Title: Migrants against slavery
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: African Americans, Antislavery movements, Biography, History, Internal Migration, Migration, Internal, Migrations, Public opinion, Slavery, Whites, United states, history, 19th century, Virginia, biography, White people
Places: United States, Virginia
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: E445.V8 S38 2001