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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195084498)
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xFrom 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."
Author: John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger
ISBN-10: 0195084497
ISBN-13: 9780195084498
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/29/1999
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.43w x 1.47d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/1999 pg. 267
Booklist 02/15/1999 pg. 1032
Library Journal 03/01/1999 pg. 96
New York Times 08/15/1999 pg. 30
Christian Century 08/30/2000 pg. 881
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."
Author: John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger
ISBN-10: 0195084497
ISBN-13: 9780195084498
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/29/1999
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.43w x 1.47d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/1999 pg. 267
Booklist 02/15/1999 pg. 1032
Library Journal 03/01/1999 pg. 96
New York Times 08/15/1999 pg. 30
Christian Century 08/30/2000 pg. 881
By John Hope Franklin
xJohn Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the author of numerous books, including the epic From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, which boasts more than three million copies in print. Loren Schweninger is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
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