Fugitive Slave Advertisements in the City Gazette

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.

שנה

2015

שפה

English

הוצאה

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

מהדורות

1

עמודים

406

ISBN

9781498507813

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata