Fugitive Slave Narratives and the (Re)presentation of the Self? The Cases of Frederick Douglass and William Brown by Lawrence Aje

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Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats: Assistance Networks for Fugitive Slaves in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1836-1861 by Thomas Mareite

“…In this expanding slavery frontier, ideological grounds to support fugitive slaves largely coexisted with economic incentives, self-interest and socio-economic proximity. …”
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Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany by Josef Köstlbauer

“… This contribution uses a set of documents dealing with the case of a fugitive slave named Samuel Johannes in Upper Lusatia in 1754 to demonstrate the merits of a historical semantics–inspired approach. …”
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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN / by Twain, Mark, author 556774

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Runaway Slave Names Recaptured: An Investigation of the Personal First Names of Fugitive Slaves Advertised in the Virginia Gazette Between 1736 and 1776 by Iman Makeba Laversuch

“…Abstract This investigation presents the analysis of 251 personal names found in 960 fugitive slave advertisements placed in the Virginia Gazette between 1736 and 1776. …”
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Paula de Eguiluz y el arte del bien querer, apuntes para el estudio de la sensualidad y del cimarronaje femenino en el Caribe siglo XVII. by Adriana Maya.

Subjects: “…fugitive slaves…”
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Illegal Self-Emancipation in the Urban Upper South, 1800-1860 by Viola F. Müller

Subjects: “…Fugitive slaves…”
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“May Change Name and Pretend to be Free”: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation of Surnames Adopted by Fugitive Slaves As Advertised in Colonial American Newspapers Between 1729 and 1818 by I M Laversuch

“…The present investigation provides an empirical analysis of surnaming patterns among fugitive slaves as advertised in colonial American newspapers between 1729 and 1818. …”
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN / by Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, author, editor

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Editorial by Frank Nuessel

Subjects: “…FUGITIVE SLAVE…”
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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: [TOM SAWYER'S COMPANION] / by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author, Benard DeVoto, editor, Thomas Hart Benton, illustrator

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In the Name of Freedom by I. M. Nick

Subjects: “…fugitive slaves…”
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North American Counterterritoriality: Nineteenth-Century Black Activism and Alternative Legal Spatiality by Nele Sawallisch

Subjects: “…upper canada and fugitive slave laws…”
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A brief history of the quilombos of Trombetas River basin by Lúcia M. M. de Andrade

“…The author recovers oral tradition and reconstructs the history of communities that come from "quilombos" (villages founded by fugitive slaves). This is dane from a work developed with the population from Trombetas river, in the state of Pará…”
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SLAVERY AND CIVIL LAW IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH—TWO CASE STUDIES by Harvey Hudspeth

“…Antebellum slave law addressed fugitive slaves and criminal offenses committed by masters against slaves and by slaves against masters. …”
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Crafting emotional comfort: interpreting the painful past at living history museums in the new economy by Amy M. Tyson

“…While Snelling’s programming worked to erase the history of slavery at the site, Conner Prairie fore-grounded the trauma of slavery in a special after-hours event wherein customers paid to role-play for 90 minutes as fugitive slaves on Indiana’s underground railroad in 1836. …”
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Um Natal de negros: esboço etnográfico sobre um ritual religioso num quilombo amazônico by Aldrin Moura de Figueiredo

“…This article intends to approximate the Anthropology and the History through the description of a religious ritual lived by descendents of ancient fugitive slaves of Curuá river, dístrict of Alenquer, Médio-Amazonas paraense, who had lived in that region since middle-eighteen century . …”
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Force de la pudeur by Suzanne Fraysse

“…Other slave narratives are then examined to show how the slave narrators’ reticence does not simply stem from their desire to live up to the prudish expectations of their readers but constitutes a rhetorical strategy aiming at opposing fugitive slaves abiding by conservative moral values to slaveholders whose profligacy blurs the conventional boundaries between males and females, Blacks and Whites, animals and human beings. …”
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Identitarian Politics in the "Quilombo" Frechal: Live Histories in a Brazilian Community of Slave Descendants by Roberto Malighetti

“…Appealing to a Constitutional Article granting the property of the land to the descendant of the fugitive slaves, the people of Frechal (Maranhão) obtained - after complex events overshadowed by tension and violence - the expropriation of the land bought by an entrepreneur of São Paulo with the precise intent to forcibly expel the local population. …”
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Rethinking Slavery’s Abolition in Ceará Through an Engagement with Maritime Marronage by Martine Jean

“…By probing the long tradition of fugitive slaves using their access to the sea and their skills as sailors and boatmen to escape slavery and relocate from one province to another, this article demonstrates that the world of maritime labor provided opportunities and challenges for slave resistance, and fugitive mariners created a culture of contesting the geography of slavery in Brazil.…”
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