SHADRACH MINKINS From Fugitive Slave to Citizen FACTUAL

COLLISON , Gary , Assoc.Professor

ISBN 10: 0674802985 / ISBN 13: 9780674802988

Published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS / CAMBRIDGE, USA / LONDON, 1997

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FINE H/b in FINE D/j.1st ed.1st print. History 1850's. b/w illustrations as expected. On 15th Feb 1851 Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffee house in Boston when he was arrested and became the First Runaway slave under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law to be apprehended. k Offering a rare, engrossing, picture of the life of an ordinary black man, in nineteenth century North America. 250pp.240x160mm [ blue paper boards with black cloth quarter binding, gilt titles, book as new , no inscsp ,Dust Jacket not price clipped , $27.95. Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SHADRACH MINKINS From Fugitive Slave to Citizen FACTUAL
• Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS / CAMBRIDGE, USA / LONDON
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674802985
• ISBN 13: 9780674802988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humanities
  • Factual
  • History

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Synopsis

The story of how an illiterate black man from Virginia found himself to be the catalyst of a dramatic episode of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. As the story unfolds, the reader sees what life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, and for a free black man in Montreal, where a community was established by Minkins and other refugee blacks from the United States. Minkins life is traced from Virginia to Boston to Montreal, through his arrest and rescue and the issues of urban slavery and Boston abolitionism are addressed.

Review

[Collison] has painted for us a fascinating portrait of African American life in slavery and freedom at the time of the Fugitive Slave Law...This book will be useful not only to the average reader interested in fugitive slave accounts but also to researchers seeking new avenues of information for African American and African Canadian history. It is entertaining and well written, demonstrating how thorough research, coupled with an author's deep personal interest in the subject, can combine to make a scholarly history book that is also a good read.--Karolyn Smardz Frost "Canadian Historical Review "