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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Yazar: Collison, Gary Lee, 1947-
Materyal Türü: Ekitap
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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İçindekiler:
  • 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.