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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195084519
ISBN-139780195084511
eBay Product ID (ePID)1666538
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Book TitleRunaway Slaves : Rebels on the Plantation
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicSlavery, United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / General
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorLoren Schweninger, John Hope Franklin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length6.1 in
Item Width9 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"In this rich, descriptive volume, based on considerable archival research...one of this country's most distinguished historians...collaborates with one of his former students...to get at the true nature of salvery in the Old South by examining the significant number of slaves who by runningaway challenged the system."--Robert L. Paquatte, The Washington Times, "No one has yet explored the fugitives' world and its meaning for the slave experience more deeply and with greater sophistication than [the authors]....[This book] greatly enhances our understanding of the system of slavery...."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Using documentation from broadsheets to diaries, the authors provide incredible details of who the runaways were, their motivations and destinations, and how their efforts failed or succeeded. Franklin and Schweninger provide very personal accounts, giving names and personalities to an aspect of U.S. slavery that is seldom portrayed and refuting the mythology of the contented slave."--Booklist, "An important new book.... Runaway Slaves compellingly documents theperseverance of thousands of African Americans who fought to be free."--Amy J.Kinsel, Seattle Times/Post Intellegencer, "[The authors] address the meaning of slave flight by inspecting hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases gleaned from a careful reading of runaway advertisements and judicial and legislative records. Their close analysis reveals that flight was not a single phenomenon but many, because runawayslaves had different motives, strategies, tactics, and goals....[This book] not only tells the story of the minority who secured freedom and attacked slavery from the outside, but how even those who failed to gain their liberty subverted slavery from the inside. In unfolding the fugitives' tale,Franklin and Schweninger contribute mightily to our understanding of how the system of slavery stood for nearly three centuries and why it eventually fell."--Ira Berlin, Los Angeles Times Book Review (Chosen as a Best Book of 1999), "Runaway Slaves provides an arsenal of ammunition to prove that the Old South was indeed a war zone....[It] amply documents the prevalence and variety of slave rebelliousness."--Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "Assiduous researchers, [the authors] have catalogued and categorized in a 'Runaway Slave Database' a wealth of information, which they impart extensively in their book."--Benjamin Schwarz, The New York Times Book Review, "A neglected dimension of slavery has finally been researched and revealedin full. An important study by one of the nation's major historians."--Sterling Stuckey, Professor of History, University of California,Riverside, "By repetitive and relentless example, Runaway Slaves gathers force: the book is monumental in impact....What emerges is a picture of powerful human resistance--and of a political and economic system rotten to the core."--Phyllis Eckhaus, n These Times, "Thoreau said that historians show us the present more than the past, and nothing illustrates his statement better than [this book]....Runaway Slaves is a formidable corrective [that] tells us more than we want to know about ourselves."--Kent Gramm, Civil War Book Review, "Using documentation from broadsheets to diaries, the authors provideincredible details of who the runaways were, their motivations and destinations,and how their efforts failed or succeeded. Franklin and Schweninger providevery personal accounts, giving names and personalities to an aspect of U.S.slavery that is seldom portrayed and refuting the mythology of the contentedslave."--Booklist, "This splendid book, full of human-interest accounts of escaped slaves,does more than demonstrate the prevalence of slave resistance by running away.By reflecting a bright, harsh light on the institution of bondage, RunawaySlaves expands our knowledge and understanding of slavery in the UnitedStates."--James M. McPherson, Professor of History, Princeton University, andauthor of Battle Cry of Freedom, "Dr. John Hope Franklin and his colleague, Dr. Loren Schweninger, inwriting this book have added a tremendous new dimension to our understanding ofwhat slave life was really like in the American South. It does not cause one tolie down to pleasant dreams." --William F. Winter, Attorney, member of PresidentClinton's Race Initiative Advisory Board, "A well-crafted and carefully researched account that opens a new windowonto a dark and painful chapter in American history."--Kirkus Reviews, "[This] should be on the shelf of any person who has an interest in Southern history or black history, and it certainly will be useful in the classroom."--The Times (Roanoke, Virginia), "Meticulous, compassionate, and illuminating; John Hope Franklin and LorenSchweninger in Runaway Slaves have bequeathed to all Americans a modernmasterpiece about White power, domination and resistance, and the Black will tobe free."--Darlene Clark Hine, co-author, A Shining Thread of Hope: The Historyof Black Women in America, "What a treat to read the engrossing, indeed astonishing, new book by JohnHope Franklin and Loren Schweninger! Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation,1790-1860 is destined to be a classic and will undoubtedly be well-received bythe academic community and general readers alike. The scholarship is trulyimpressive and it is written in such accessible prose. This book should be onassigned reading lists for as long as we teach American History." --DarleneClark Hine, co-author A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women inAmerica, "By any manner of reckoning John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger haveproduced an extraordinary book about slavery that addresses, authoritatively andpersuasively, the basic nature of the slave system....The overwhelming evidencepresented in this richly detailed study should dispel, once and for all, thenotion that runaway slaves were mere aberrations and that the slave South was atranquil society inhabited by benevolent white masters and happy, loyal,good-natured blacks contented with their lots as slaves." --Willard B. Gatewood,Alumni Distinguished Professor of History, University of Arkansas,Fayetteville, "An excellent book, the best available on the struggle between slaves and their masters."--John David Smith, The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), "An amazing wealth of detail on the backgrounds and experiences of bondsmen and bondswomen who were so discontented with slavery, or at least with their particular experience of it, that they simply ran away....Franklin and Schweninger argue convincingly that more than 50,000 (a conservativeestimate) took flight each year....Numbers aside, what is impressive about these runaways is their sheer variety. Again and again, the authors offer a generalization--for instance, that young men were over-represented--and then swamp us with counter-examples....Many different kinds of men and womenappear, but none who is docile, or cowed, or content."--John Shelton Reed, Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Decimal975/.00496
Table Of Content1. Dissidents in the Conscript Army2. On the Run3. Whither Thou Goest4. A Matter of Some Urgency5. Where To Go?6. They Seek a City7. The Hunt8. Backward into Bondage9. Profile of a Runaway10. Managing Human Property11. Counting the CostA Note on Primary SourcesAppendix 1: Newspaper AdvertisementsAppendix 2: Petitions to State Legislatures and County CourtsAppendix 3: Location and Possible Destinations of Runaways Cited in the Nashville Whig, 1812-1816Appendix 4: Location and Possible Destinations of Runaways Cited in the Tennessee Republican Banner (Nashville), 1840-1842Appendix 5: Damages Sought by Henry Crane for Runaway Lewis, 1851Appendix 6: CorrespondenceAppendix 7: Runaway Slave Database: Early Period 1790-1816; Late Period 1838-1860
SynopsisThis new, bold, precedent-setting study conclusively demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did quite frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, the book shows readers how slaves resisted; when, where, and how they escaped; where they fled to; how long theyremained in hiding; and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it also examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effortto prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves.Reflecting a lifetime of thought by one of our leading authorities on African-American history, Runaway Slaves illuminates as never before the true nature of that "most peculiar institution" of the South., From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshalled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution"., From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, JohnHope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away fromthe plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, andestablished patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution.", From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution."
