Rebels and runaways : slave resistance in nineteenth-century Florida /
This study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. The author discusses Florida's historical significance as a runaway slave haven dating back to the 17th century.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Language notes: | English. |
Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012] |
Series: | New Black studies series.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Table of Contents:
- Day-to-day resistance
- Stepping up the degrees of resistance
- Away without leave
- A yearning for freedom
- Destinations of runaways
- Flight away from Florida
- In search of kinfolk and loved ones
- Catch the runaway
- Slave violence
- The second Seminole War
- The Civil War.