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Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public that was largely unaware of its atrocities. Prince was born in Bermuda to an enslaved family. She spent her early life in harsh conditions and was eventually sold to John Adams Wood of Antigua, working as his domestic servant. She joined the Moravian Church, where she learned to read, and married Daniel James, a former slave who had bought his freedom. In 1828 she traveled to England with the Woods family and after protracted efforts by abolitionists was able to leave their control. Encouraged by her new employer, Thomas Pringle, who also served as her editor, Prince wrote and published her book in 1831 to wide acclaim. While eighteenth-century slave narratives largely focused on Christian spiritual journeys and religious redemption, Prince was part of a growing trend of abolitionist writers focused on the injustice of slavery. Her work stands alongside better-known narratives such as A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Adding to its importance, few early women's slave narratives exist.

Slavery --- Fugitive slaves --- Runaway slaves --- Slaves --- Prince, Mary. --- Enslaved persons

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On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen of the state. When the officers refused, the crowd took matters into its own hands and rescued Joshua Glover. The federal government brought his rescuers to trial, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court intervened and took the bold step of ruling the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional. The Rescue o

Fugitive slaves --- Runaway slaves --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History --- Glover, Joshua. --- Booth, Sherman M. --- United States. --- Enslaved persons

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In this fascinating book, Damian Alan Pargas introduces a new conceptualization of 'spaces of freedom' for fugitive slaves in North America between 1800 and 1860, and answers the questions: How and why did enslaved people flee to - and navigate - different destinations throughout the continent, and to what extent did they succeed in evading recapture and re-enslavement? Taking a continental approach, this study highlights the diversity of slave fight by conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct - and continuously evolving - spaces of freedom. Namely, spaces of informal freedom in the US South, where enslaved people attempted to flee by passing as free blacks; spaces of semi-formal freedom in the US North, where slavery was abolished but the precise status of fugitive slaves was contested; and spaces of formal freedom in Canada and Mexico, where slavery was abolished and runaways were considered legally free and safe from re-enslavement.

Fugitive slaves --- Slaves --- Maroons --- Fugitive slave communities --- History --- Emancipation --- Communities --- Cimarrónes --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Runaway slaves

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First published in 1898, this comprehensive history was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and a large number of other firsthand accounts. Together, they shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to runaway slaves, including the degree of formal organization within the movement, methods of procedure, geographical range, leadership roles

Underground Railroad --- Fugitive slaves --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States - General --- Runaway slaves --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Antislavery movements --- Fugitive enslaved persons.

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Trials --- Maroons --- Fugitive slaves --- Runaway slaves --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Cimarrones --- Blacks --- State trials --- Court proceedings --- Procedure (Law) --- History. --- Dominica --- Commonwealth of Dominica --- French Dominica --- Waiʻtu kubuli --- West Indies (Federation) --- Leeward Islands (Federation) --- Windward Islands (Jurisdiction) --- Cimarrónes --- Enslaved persons