Running a Thousand Miles For Freedom - Softcover

Craft, William And Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0557549809 ISBN 13: 9780557549801

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

In America's darkest days slavery was accepted. More than 4 million Africans were slaves at the height of the slave trade. Wanting the same liberties as their white counterparts, many Africans escaped slavery and made their way to Canada, England, the Caribbean and their home country. This is one of the stories.

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Review

""Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is the most significant fugitive slave narrative to come out of Georgia. I know of no other account that provides as riveting an account of an actual escape experience. It offers so much more in its treatment of gender and racial role-reversals, of husband-wife and master-slave relations, and of abolitionist activity on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. --"Georgia Historical Quarterly""

"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is the most significant fugitive slave narrative to come out of Georgia. I know of no other account that provides as riveting an account of an actual escape experience. It offers so much more in its treatment of gender and racial role-reversals, of husband-wife and master-slave relations, and of abolitionist activity on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.--"Georgia Historical Quarterly"

About the Author

Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor ofHistory at Vanderbilt University and the author of several booksabout nineteenth-century history, including Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0557549809
• ISBN 13: 9780557549801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48