Title "Pretends to be free" : runaway slave advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey / edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown

Edition Revised and expanded edition Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (lxii, 370 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- A Note on Colonial and Revolutionary Newspapers -- Introduction to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition -- Teacher's Guide to "Pretends to Be Free " -- Foreword -- Runaway Slave Advertisements -- Appendix 1. Tables -- Appendix 2. Hues and Cries Summary Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pretends to Be Free" recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before and during the American Revolution. Through these notices, readers can discover how enslaved blacks chose allegiance during our War for Independence. Replete with a preface by Edward E. Baptist, the leading scholar of slavery and capitalism and director of a massive project aimed at digitalizing every escape notice, and with a new Introduction and teacher's guide by Graham Hodges, this new edition makes this documentary study more relevant than ever Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 22, 2018) Subject Fugitive slaves -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources Fugitive slaves -- New Jersey -- History -- Sources HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Fugitive slaves Military participation -- African American SUBJECT New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American -- Sources New Jersey -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American -- Sources United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American -- Sources Subject New Jersey New York (State) United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Sources Form Electronic book Author Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946- editor. Brown, Alan Edward, editor. ISBN 9780823282166 0823282163

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