TY - BOOK ID - 118229929 TI - Conditional freedom : free soil and fugitive slaves, from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861 PY - 2022 SN - 9004523286 9004523278 PB - BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Fugitive slaves KW - Black people KW - Underground Railroad. KW - Refugees KW - History KW - Mexican-American Border Region KW - Race relations KW - Runaway slaves KW - Slavery KW - Enslaved persons KW - Displaced persons KW - Persons KW - Underground Railroad KW - Antislavery movements KW - Black persons KW - Blacks KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - American-Mexican Border Region KW - Border Region, American-Mexican KW - Border Region, Mexican-American KW - Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) KW - Mexico-United States Border Region KW - Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos KW - United States-Mexico Border Region UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118229929 AB - "While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi Valley during the nineteenth-century"-- ER -