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African American Southerners in Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction
This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks in the last decades of slavery, the Civil War years, and the following period of Reconstruction. African Americans …
Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865
This revealing work explores all facets of the ""peculiar institution"" in this peculiar location and its impact on the social and political development of the United States.
Station Master on the Underground Railroad
Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. Unlike most other white abolitionists who …
Slave Badges and the Slave-hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865
The slave-hire system of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and the 1800s produced a curious object - the slave badge. The badges were intended to legislate the practice of …
Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad
"Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next two hundred years. By the onset of the …
Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865
From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast majority of its enslaved people. …