Shadrach Minkins : from fugitive slave to citizen

Shadrach Minkins : from fugitive slave to citizen / Gary Collison.

On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collison, Gary Lee, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Minkins, Shadrach.
Minkins, Shadrach
1800-1899
Enslaved persons > Virginia > Norfolk > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > Massachusetts > Boston > Biography.
African Americans > Québec (Province) > Montréal > History > 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African Americans
Fugitive slaves
Enslaved persons
Flüchtling
Sklaverei
Norfolk (Va.) > Biography.
Boston (Mass.) > Biography.
Montréal (Québec) > Biography.
Massachusetts > Boston
Québec > Montréal
Virginia > Norfolk
Kanada
USA
Schwärze
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Norfolk: "Han't got no self"
  • "Horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children"
  • "Silver trump of freedom"
  • Boston: "Cradle of liberty"?
  • "New reign of terror"
  • "Much excitement prevails"
  • "Thing or a man?"
  • "Plucked as a brand from the burning"
  • "Never was a darker day"
  • North Star
  • Montreal: "Please to remember me kindly"
  • Home far away
  • "Free at last! Free at last!"
  • Militia petition by black residents of Montreal.

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