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Subversives
Stanley Harrold
其他書名
Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865
出版Louisiana State University Press, 2003
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th Century
ISBN08071280589780807128053
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=intXswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of the nation's capital. Historian Stanley Harrold looks beyond resolutions, platforms, and debates to describe how desperate African Americans - both free and slave - and sympathetic whites engaged in a dangerous day-to-day campaign to drive the peculiar institution out of Washington, D.C., and the Chesapeake region. That slavery was both vulnerable and vicious in Washington is at the heart of Harrold's study. As economic changes caused slavery's decline in the Chesapeake and masters dismembered slave families by selling them South, local African Americans sought and received the support of a small number of whites eager to strike a blow against slavery in a strategic and very symbolic setting. Together they formed a subversive community that flourished in and about the city from the late 1820s through the mid-1860s. Risking beatings, mob violence, imprisonment, and death, these men and women distributed abolitionist literature, purchased the freedom of slaves, sued to prevent families from being