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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主要作者:	Collison, Gary Lee, 1947-
格式:	电子书
语言:	English
出版:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
主题:	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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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.

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

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