Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen

Collison, Gary

ISBN 10: 0674802985 / ISBN 13: 9780674802988

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1997

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SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page - Square and completely unmarked copy with moderate wear to boards, strongest at foot, light toning/handling wear at text block edges, and a previous owner's name inside on front free end paper. Dust jacket neither faded nor price clipped ($27.95) with moderately worn edges.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674802985
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674802988
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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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.