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Runaway to Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Barbara Claassen Smucker
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-10-23 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.
Runaway to Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 154
Authors: Barbara Claassen Smucker
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978 - Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.
Freedom Seekers
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Damian Alan Pargas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this fascinating book, Damian Alan Pargas introduces a new conceptualization of 'spaces of freedom' for fugitive slaves in North America between 1800 and 186
Picture Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-03 - Publisher: NYU Press

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In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. Peop
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Damian Alan Pargas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-08 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a gro