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- Athens : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, ©2010.
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- Book — 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations Digital: data file.
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- Slavery in the shadow of liberty : the problem of slavery in Congress and the nation's capital / Paul Finkelman
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- 1. Congress and slavery in context
- The impact of British abolitionism on American sectionalism / David Brion Davis
- Christian statesmanship, codes of honor, and congressional violence : the antislavery travails and triumphs of Joshua Giddings / James B. Stewart
- Gamaliel Bailey, antislavery journalist and lobbyist / Stanley Harrold
- Saturday nights at the Baileys' : building an antislavery movement in Congress, 1838/1854 / Jonathan Earle
- "A nest of rattlesnakes let loose among them" : congressional debates over women's antislavery petitions, 1835/1845 / Susan Zaeske
- Debating slavery by proxy : the Texas annexation controversy / David Zarefsky
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- 2. The politics of slavery in the District of Columbia
- The 1846 retrocession of Alexandria : protecting slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia / A. Glenn Crothers
- "Whether they be ours or no, they may be heirs of the kingdom" : the pursuit of family ties among enslaved people in the District of Columbia / Mary Beth Corrigan
- The 1848 Pearl escape from Washington, D.C. : a convergence of opportunity, motivation, and political action in the nation's capital / Mary K. Ricks
- Celebrating emancipation and contesting freedom in Washington, D.C. / Mitch Kachun.
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- Cowling, Camillia, author.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages)
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- Part I. Gender, Law, and Urban Slavery
- Sites of Enslavement, Spaces of Freedom : Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic Cities of Havana and Rio de Janeiro
- The Law Is Final, Excellent Sir : Slave Law, Gender, and Gradual Emancipation
- Part II. Seeking Freedom
- As a Slave Woman and as a Mother : Law, Jurisprudence, and Rhetoric in Stories from Women's Claims-Making
- Exaggerated and Sentimental? : Engendering Abolitionism in the Atlantic World
- I Wish to Be in This City : Women and the Quest for Urban Freedom
- Part III. Conceiving Freedom
- Enlightened Mothers of Families or Competent Domestic Servants? : Elites Imagine the Meanings of Freedom
- She Was Now a Free Woman : Ex-Slave Women and the Meanings of Urban Freedom
- My Mother Was Free-Womb, She Wasn't a Slave : Conceiving Freedom
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: Conceiving Citizenship.
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- Clavin, Matthew J., author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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- Book — 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations, maps Digital: text file; PDF.
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- Introduction
- Colonial period
- War of 1812 and Negro Fort
- Interracialism and resistance
- Running away
- Underground Railroad
- Civil War
- Conclusion.
- Castilho, Celso Thomas author.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
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- Book — 1 online resource Digital: data file.
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- Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Introduction;
- Chapter 1. "Death to Slavery": Sparking the Abolition Debate;
- Chapter 2. "While the Cry for Emancipation Still Echoes": The Political Effects of the 1871 Law;
- Chapter 3. "We Need to Put into Action the Liberal Ideas We Speak Of": A Thwarted Attempt to Free Recife;
- Chapter 4. The "Disorderliness of the Intransigent Abolitionists": An Abolitionist Parade, New Associativism, and Elections;
- Chapter 5. "March on over the Thorns That Lie in Your Path": Reaction and Counterreaction in the Cotegipe Era.
- Chapter 6. "Celebrations of Freedom": Abolition and the Changing Debates over CitizenshipConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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- Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations Digital: data file.
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- Introduction: imagining freedom in the slave South
- City of contrasts: Charleston before the Civil War
- A way out of no way: Black women and manumission
- To survive and thrive: race, sex, and waged labor in the city
- The currency of citizenship: property ownership and Black female freedom
- A tale of two women: the lives of Cecille Cogdell and Sarah Sanders
- A fragile freedom: the story of Margaret Bettingall and her daughters
- Epilogue: the continuing search for freedom.
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- Stouffer, Allen P., 1937-
- Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1992.
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- Book — 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
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- Contents
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- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Loyalists and Slavery
- 2 Roots: The British Connection
- 3 Helping the Lord against the Mighty
- 4 A Feeble Voice from the Backwoods of Canada
- 5 Land, an Interest in the Soil, and a Christian Education
- 6 Educating the Public
- 7 The Church and Antislavery
- 8 A Question of Identity
- 9 Ontario and the Freedman
- 10 Retrospect
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Stouffer, Allen P., 1937-
- Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1992.
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- Book — 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
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- Contents
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- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Loyalists and Slavery
- 2 Roots: The British Connection
- 3 Helping the Lord against the Mighty
- 4 A Feeble Voice from the Backwoods of Canada
- 5 Land, an Interest in the Soil, and a Christian Education
- 6 Educating the Public
- 7 The Church and Antislavery
- 8 A Question of Identity
- 9 Ontario and the Freedman
- 10 Retrospect
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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8. Slavery and freedom in Savannah [2013]
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2013.
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- The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / James A. McMillin
- "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / Timothy Lockley
- At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / Susan Eva O'Donovan
- To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Jeffrey Robert Young
- Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
- Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond
- Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones
- "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / Jonathan M. Bryant
- "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / Bobby J. Donaldson.
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