Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South by Viola Franziska Müller
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South
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Viola Franziska Müller
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Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South

Viola Franziska Müller

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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Viola Franziska Muller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them t...

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