Robert H Churchill

The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489126
• ISBN-10: 1108489125
• Artikelnr.: 58503773

Autorenporträt

Robert H. Churchill is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hartford. He is the author of Shaking their Guns in the Tyrant's Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Origins to 1838: 1. Refugees all: the origins of the Underground
Railroad; Part II. 1838-1850: 2. Under siege: borderland activists confront
the violence of mastery; 3. Bondage and dignity: accommodation and
collision in the contested region; 4. Free soil: Prigg, Latimer, and open
resistance in the upper north; Part III. 1850-1860: 5. Law and degradation:
lethal violence and beleaguered resistance in the borderland; 6. Above
ground: open defiance and the limits of free soil; 7. The end of
toleration: the collapse of the Fugitive Slave Act in the contested region;
Epilogue: cultures of violence, secession, and war; Appendix: fugitive
slave rescues, 1794-1861.