Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
- List Price: $110.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 04/01/1999
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, 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 research 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".
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