Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies)

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  Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies)

• Reading Level: Hardcover
• Binding: Hardcover
• No. of Pages: 250
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• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
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• ISBN: 0813920086
• Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 6.23 x 0.95 x 9.25
• Shipping Weight: 1.43
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• Amazon Sales Rank: 2434688

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A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants in a society grounded in bondage; fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves; free African Americans searched for greater opportunity.

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.

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