| Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865 Contributor(s): Whitman, T. Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0938420968 ISBN-13: 9780938420965 Publisher: Maryland Center for History and Culture OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2007 Annotation: The Chesapeake formed the cradle of American slavery, but there, too, resistance was born. T. Stephen Whitman, the Price of Freedom, narrates the rise of opposition to the "peculiar institution." The largely white abolition movement, which briefly flowered in ideas and acts of heroism, and the equally heroic and more persistent efforts of slaves and free blacks to throw off their shackles. Here are Benjamin Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison, Daniel Drayton, William Still, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Gabriel, Nat Turner, William Parker, and John Brown, whose fearsome revolts stunned the Tidewater social order. Recounted, too, their freedom and at other times took it, eventually donning Union blue and joining the fight to end slavery by force. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2006100835 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.04" W x 8.98" (0.94 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A chronological account of nine decades of antislavery activity in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, culminating in the Civil War. Challenging slavery could entail negotiating for freedom by manumission; grasping freedom by flight or insurrection; or uniting with external allies in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, or the Civil War. Free black people also undermined slavery as workers, worshippers, teachers, and writers. Whites who aided black freedom seekers also played their part. |
Contributor Bio(s): Whitman, T. Stephen: - T. Stephen Whitman is an assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary's University and the author of The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. |