Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation
(Part of the The Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World Series)
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A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants in a society grounded in bondage; fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves; free African Americans searched for greater opportunity. In...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813920086
ISBN13:9780813920085
Release Date:March 2001
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:250 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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