Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-12 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of f
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05 - Publisher: Adam Wasserman
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, predicted that the bottom class perspective of history would eventually gain ground, enveloping
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-12 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prospero
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources