Aiming for Pensacola : fugitive slaves on the Atlantic and Southern frontiers
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Clavin Matthew J. ;
- Editeurs : Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press ;
- Date d'édition : 2015, cop. 2015
- ISBN : 978-0-674-08822-1, 0-674-08822-0
- Sujets : Esclaves fugitifs -- Histoire -- Floride (États-Unis) -- Pensacola (Fla.), Esclaves fugitifs, Underground railroad, Mouvements antiesclavagistes, Pensacola (Fla.) -- Relations interethniques, Florida, United States
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (252 p.), : Ill., cartes, jaquette ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
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Résumé
'Before the abolition of slavery in the United States, Pensacola, Florida, was the site of extensive and enduring interracial resistance to slavery. In times of peace, fugitive slaves running to and from Pensacola encountered free men and women of various races, ethnicities, and nationalities--including farmers, laborers, mechanics, and seamen--who subsisted on the margins of society and had no vested interest in maintaining slavery or white supremacy. In times of war, they confronted soldiers and sailors who tried to demolish the foundation of slavery entirely. The interracial resistance to slavery that thrived in Pensacola in the years before the Civil War, Clavin contends, would play a role in demolishing the foundations of Southern slavery when that fateful conflict arrived'--Provided by publisher