
Runaway Slaves
Rebels on the Plantation
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 5. August 1999
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-19-508449-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is a precedent-breaking book on slave resistance and runaway slaves in the American South before the Civil War. The book's thesis is that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has usually been attributed, and, specifically, that slaves attempted to run away from their masters whenever they could. John Hope Franklin is the most distinguished African American historian in America.
Reviews / Votes
they provide an amazing wealth of detail on the backgrounds and experiences of bondsmen and bondswomen who were so discontented with slavery, or at least with their particular experience of it, that they simply ran away./ John Shelton Read, the William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the TLS, 30/04/99More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 halftones, 15 line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
875 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-508449-8 (9780195084498)
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08/2000
Oxford University Press Inc
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E-Book
07/2000
1st Edition
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€15.49
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E-Book
04/1999
OUP eBook
€12.49
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Persons
John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the author of numerous books, including the epic From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, which boasts more than three million copies in print.
Loren Schweninger is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Loren Schweninger is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Author
James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of HistoryJames B. Duke Emeritus Professor of History, Duke University
Professor of HistoryProfessor of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro