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 |
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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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Borderlands -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
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Underground Railroad -- Pennsylvania
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Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
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Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
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African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
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Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
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Fugitive slaves -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century
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Abolitionists.
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African Americans.
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Antislavery movements.
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Borderlands.
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Fugitive slaves.
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Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Race relations.
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Underground Railroad.
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Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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Pennsylvania.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780823249466 |
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0823249468 |
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