Damian Alan Pargas (Universiteit Leiden)

Freedom Seekers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking a continental approach, Freedom Seekers introduces a new conceptualization of 'spaces of freedom' in North America, revealing the diversity of slave fight by dividing the continent into three distinct (and continuously evolving) spaces. An essential study for students of African-American history and the American South.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781316631355
• ISBN-10: 1316631354
• Artikelnr.: 62318456

Autorenporträt

Damian Alan Pargas is Professor of North American History and Culture at Leiden University and director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands. He is the author of two books, The Quarters and the Fields (2010) and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. The changing geography of slavery and freedom
2. 'Lurking amongst the free Negroes': spaces of informal freedom in the Urban South
3. 'As if their own liberty were at stake': spaces of semi-formal freedom in the Northern United States
4. 'Departure from the house of bondage': spaces of formal freedom in British Canada and Mexico
Conclusion
Bibliography.