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- 1From:Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn September 18, 1850, President Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Law, the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850. This law has been characterized as "one of the most shameful legislative...
- 2From:Diogenes (Issue 179) Peer-ReviewedI have never forgotten the first time I tried to run away. That time I failed and spent a number of years enslaved by the fear they would put the shackles on me again. But I had the spirit of a cimarron in me, and it...
- 3From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen in any state, the oppression of the labouring portion of the community amounts to an entire deprivation of their civil and personal rights; when it assumes to control their wills, to assign them tasks, to reap the...
- 4From:Civil War History (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAS A SLAVE on the Elzy Plantation in Leesburg, Virginia, John W. Jones often thought about seeking a better life for himself up North. Worried that his master would soon die and he would be sold into an even worse...
- 5From:Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis year, the nation will commemorate the 200 birthday of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, better know as Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland, and despite a lack of formal...
- 6From:Research in African LiteraturesPeer-ReviewedAfrican slaves examined in this essay understood how written, legal discourse could be used against them and how they could employ it to their advantage. Legal documents from the frontiers of three colonial Spanish...
- 7From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 9, Issue 2-3)aka Moses High in the darkening heavens the wind swift, the storm massing the giant arrow rose, a crackling arch, a sign above the fleeing band of people, toy figures in the canebrake below. Far in the distance, moving...
- 8From:North Carolina Law Review (Vol. 92, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWith the number of immigrant deportations setting new records, attention has focused largely on states like Arizona and Alabama, which seem to be competing to pass the harshest anti-immigrant state law provisions. Yet...
- 9From:Biography (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe fugitive slave narratives that were published between 1760 and 1865 concern the past sufferings, escape, and freedom of a former slave. [1] Although they are currently vital to the revision of historical knowledge...
- 10From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 16, Issue 11)A professor is helping Iowa officials piece together that state's Underground Railroad history. On Nov. 4, 1857, three Black men walking along a road near the small town of Lynnville, in southern Iowa, were met by...
- 11From:Ontario History (Vol. 99, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Few topics in Ontario's rich history rival that of the Underground Railroad in terms of human drama and intrigue. One of those individual stories that graphically illustrate that point is that of Isaac...
- 12From:Michigan Historical Review (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedColonel Samuel Ragland, an Alabama planter, received an unusual visitor one day in the early 1850s. The caller was James Rapier, a relatively prosperous free black man, and the visit concerned Milton, one of Ragland's...
- 13From:Journal of Southern History (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE GEOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE UNITED STATES territory of Florida provided unusual modes of escape for bondpeople in the antebellum era. Many slaves fled and joined the Seminole Indians there, while other...
- 14From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 18, Issue 25)KALAMAZOO, MICH. A Western Michigan University anthropologist has begun a search to pinpoint the site of a large settlement of escaped slaves near Vandalia, Mich. The settlement disappeared more than a century ago....
- 15From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBased on 277 claims for the return of runaway slaves from the nineteenth-century Brazilian army, this article analyzes the military's policy toward slavery. While the army required that fugitive slaves be returned to...
- 16From:New England Review (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE WAY THE SUN CAME BEATING DOWN MADE HIM FEEL LIKE THE IRON on the anvil. He was anxious and hurried, and the trickle of sweat inching down the middle of his back didn't help. Nor did his pal Henry, the old man who'd...
- 17From:High School Journal (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt's never seemed harder--or perhaps more hopeless?--to take up the work of writing for and in the academic world. But of course, we're not the first to feel this, nor the last, and writing worlds and imagining new maps...
- 18From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 9, Issue 2-3)Way back yonder down in bondage on my knee Th' moment that He gave His promise-- I was free (Walk, children) He said that when destruction rages He is a rock-- the Rock of Ages Declared that when the tempest ride He...
- 19From:High School Journal (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed[Humanization] is thwarted by injustice, exploitation, oppression, and the violence of the oppressors; it is affirmed by the yearning of the oppressed for freedom and justice, and by their struggle to recover their lost...
- 20From:Civil War History (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe study of the Civil War has become so romanticized that many of the complex issues that made the event a seminal one in American history have become lost. This is partially understandable because the war's soldiers...