Fugitive Slave Advertisements in the City GazetteThomas Brown

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in the City Gazette

Name: Fugitive Slave Advertisements in the City Gazette
ISBN: 9781498507813

Thomas Brown, Leah Sims · 2015

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About the book

This is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston’s daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority. The advertisements give insight not only into slave resistance, agency, and culture, but also into eighteenth century material life, economy, and racial ideology. The ads are also a rich source of data about the individual slaves themselves, their relationships, family connections, and life experiences. The book is accompanied by a website, fugitiveslaves.com. The website allows users to search the results of a comprehensive content analysis of the advertisements.