Shadrach Minkins - From Fugitive Slave to Citizen

Collison, Gary L.

ISBN 10: 0674802985 / ISBN 13: 9780674802988

Published by First edition, published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997., 1997

About this Item

Near fine with near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along top and bottom edges. 294 pages with index and 19 illustrations.

Seller Inventory # 23476

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shadrach Minkins - From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
• Publisher: First edition, published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674802985
• ISBN 13: 9780674802988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography/Autobiography

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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 "