Escaping Slavery by Sea in Antebellum America: A Labor History

This article explores a relatively neglected topic in the histories of slavery and abolitionism in the antebellum United States: how enslaved people escaped by sea and more specifically how the waterfront was a zone of struggle over slavery from roughly 1820 to 1865. The article treats four main the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcus Rediker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) 2022-06-01
Series:Revista Mundos do Trabalho
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/83554/51125