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Author G.Smith, David

Title On the Edge of Freedom : the Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
Published Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- 2 Thaddeus Stevens� Dilemma, Colonization, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835�39 -- 3 Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- 4 The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial -- 5 Controversy and Christiana -- 6 Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship -- 7 Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858�61
8 Contrabands, “White Victories, � and the Ultimate Slave Hunt9 After the Shooting -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Index
Summary An engagingly written, meticulously documented study of antislavery ferment just north of the Mason-Dixon line in a region of geographical, economic, cultural, and historical ""edges"". In On the Edge of Freedom, David G. Smith breaks new ground by illuminating the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsylvania-a border region of a border state with a complicated history of slavery, antislavery activism, and unequal freedom. During the antebellum decades every single fugitive slave escaping by land east of the Appalachian Mountains had to pass through the region, whe
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Subject Borderlands -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
Underground Railroad -- Pennsylvania
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
Fugitive slaves -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
Abolitionists.
African Americans.
Antislavery movements.
Borderlands.
Fugitive slaves.
Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Race relations.
Underground Railroad.
SUBJECT Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Pennsylvania.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823249466
0823249468