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This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. African Americans and white abolitionists seized upon these dramatic events to exhort citizens to complete the Revolution by extending liberty to all Americans. Casting fugitive slaves and their slave revolt leaders as heroic American Revolutionaries seeking freedom for themselves and their enslaved brethren, this book provides a broader interpretation of the American Revolution.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Fugitive Slaves and American Revolution
1. William and Ellen Craft: "Running a Thousand Miles" for Inalienable Rights
2. Rescuing Shadrach: The "Noblest Deed in Boston Since the Boston Tea-Party of 1773"
3. Thomas Sims: Renewing the Revolutionary Struggle for American Liberties
4. William Parker and Revolutionary Heroes at Christiana
5. The Jerry Rescue: Breaking Bondage and Saving America in Syracuse
6. Rescuing Joshua Glover and Guarding American Liberties
7. Anthony Burns: "Resolution to Strike the Blow, for Freedom or the Grave"
8. Margaret Garner: Tragedy and Revolutionary Resistance in Cincinnati
Epilogue: An Enduring Revolution
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
