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Challenging slavery in the Chesapeake : Black and White resistance to human bondage, 1775-1865 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-
Corporate Author: Maryland Historical Society
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Maryland Historical Society, 2007.
Subjects:
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Race relations.
Delaware > Race relations.
Slaves > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Political activity > History.
Free African Americans > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Politics and government.
Whites > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Politics and government.
Slavery > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Government, Resistance to > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Slave insurrections > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Antislavery movements > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • First Africans in the Chesapeake
  • Slavery and the American Revolution
  • Manumitters and would-be emancipators
  • Early Black challenges to slavery
  • A flickering candle
  • We got this far by faith
  • The two underground railroads
  • Civil War and the destruction of slavery.