Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South

Author/Contributor(s):	Muller, Viola Franziska
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	10/04/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Viola Franziska Mèuller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery"--