Elena K. Abbott

Beacons of Liberty

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the American anti-slavery movement through stories of harrowing escape, political grandstanding, and mass migration. Shows how debates over citizenship, equality, and national character in the nineteenth century unfolded on an international stage against the backdrop of free-soil havens in places like Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781108798457
• ISBN-10: 1108798454
• Artikelnr.: 60746681

Autorenporträt

Elena K. Abbott is a Seattle-based author, editor, and historian whose scholarship focuses on slavery and antislavery in the Atlantic world. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, where she was awarded the Harold N. Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Reform and Relocation: West Africa and Haiti in the Early Republic
2. Exit and Expansion: The Search for Legal Equality in a Time of Crisis
3. Departure and Debate: Free Black Emigration to Canada and Mexico
4. Assessing Abolition: Investigating the Results of British Emancipation
5. Reputations and Expectations: Assessing Migrant Life in Upper Canada
6. Escape and Escalation: Self-Emancipation and the Geopolitics of Freedom
7. Free Soil, Fiction, and the Fugitive Slave Act
8. Emigration and Enmity: The Meaning of Free Soil in a Nation Divided
Conclusion
Appendix: Reference Material
Bibliography
Index.