Beacons of Liberty: International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America

ISBN-13: 9781108798457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Elena K. Abbott

Opis

Examines the American anti-slavery movement through stories of harrowing escape, political grandstanding, and mass migration. Shows how debates over citizenship, equality, and national character in the nineteenth century unfolded on an international stage against the backdrop of free-soil havens in places like Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Recenzje

'Recommended.' E. R. Crowther, Choice Connect

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Reform and Relocation: West Africa and Haiti in the Early Republic; 2. Exit and Expansion: The Search for Legal Equality in a Time of Crisis; 3. Departure and Debate: Free Black Emigration to Canada and Mexico; 4. Assessing Abolition: Investigating the Results of British Emancipation; 5. Reputations and Expectations: Assessing Migrant Life in Upper Canada; 6. Escape and Escalation: Self-Emancipation and the Geopolitics of Freedom; 7. Free Soil, Fiction, and the Fugitive Slave Act; 8. Emigration and Enmity: The Meaning of Free Soil in a Nation Divided; Conclusion; Appendix: Reference Material; Bibliography; Index.