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"Pretends to Be Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey - Softcover

 
9780823282159: "Pretends to Be Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0823282155 ISBN 13: 9780823282159
Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of “Pretends to Be Free” recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before and during the American Revolution. Through these notices, readers can discover how enslaved blacks chose allegiance during our War for Independence.

Replete with a preface by Edward E. Baptist, the leading scholar of slavery and capitalism and director of a massive project aimed at digitalizing every escape notice, and with a new Introduction and teacher’s guide by Graham Hodges, this new edition makes this documentary study more relevant than ever.

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About the Authors

Graham Gao Hodges is George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University.

Alan Edward Brown is an attorney in Minneapolis and Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy

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Publisher
Fordham University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0823282155
ISBN 13 
9780823282159
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
440
Editor
Hodges Graham Russell Gao, Brown Alan Edward