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Author:

Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-

Title:

Challenging slavery in the Chesapeake : Black and White resistance to human bondage, 1775-1865 / T. Stephen Whitman.

Publisher:

Maryland Historical Society,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xv, 301 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Race relations.
Delaware--Race relations.
Slaves--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.--History.
Free African Americans--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Politics and government.
Whites--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Politics and government.
Slavery--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Government, Resistance to--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Slave insurrections--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Antislavery movements--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.

Other Authors:

Maryland Historical Society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-282) and index.

Contents:

First Africans in the Chesapeake -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- Manumitters and would-be emancipators -- Early Black challenges to slavery -- A flickering candle -- We got this far by faith -- The two underground railroads -- Civil War and the destruction of slavery.

ISBN:

9780938420965 (alk. paper)
0938420968 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006100835

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)