Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells, and: “There Is a North”: Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War by John L. Brooke

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-571
Author(s):  
Angela F. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Fugitive Slaves

Freedom and Citizenship

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-196
Author(s):  
Aston Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Black People ◽  
American Art ◽  
African American Art ◽  
American Military ◽  
Fugitive Slaves ◽  
Visual Landscape

The sixth chapter analyzes the technological revolutions that influenced representations of black people during the Civil War. Illustrated periodicals visually cataloged the war and depicted the trauma and uncertainties experienced by African Americans. At the same time, black photographers advanced their own views and ideas about the possibilities of emancipation, citizenship, and African American military service. Their images ran counter to racial stereotypes that dominated the visual landscape at the start of the Civil War. The production of these views coincided with numerous black leaders planning a national exhibition of African American art and industry. They proposed an unprecedented display of black artistic and mechanical production to convince people of all races of black intellect and to improve race relations. The exigencies and opportunities seized by fugitive slaves and enlisting black men created by the Civil War appeared in the visual production of African American activists.

African American Campaigners, Abolition and Evangelism

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-219
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
Fugitive Slaves ◽  
The City

This chapter demonstrates the complex legacy of Liverpool’s slavery heritage. It became a key location for fugitive slaves before the Civil War, who often left memoirs of their escapes. Famous examples include Frederick Douglass and Sarah Parker Remond, and also evangelists and missionaries who attacked slavery while in the city.

Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
North America ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Fugitive Slaves ◽  
Runaway Slaves ◽  
Fugitive Slave ◽  
Black Populations ◽  
The U.S

Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America examines and contrasts the experiences of various groups of African-American slaves who tried to escape bondage between the revolutionary era and the U.S. Civil War. Whereas much of the existing scholarship tends to focus on fugitive slaves in very localized settings (especially in communities and regions north of the Mason-Dixon line), the eleven contributions in this volume bring together the latest scholarship on runaway slaves in a diverse range of geographic settings throughout North America—from Canada to Virginia and from Mexico to the British Bahamas—providing a broader and more continental perspective on slave refugee migration. The volume innovatively distinguishes between various “spaces of freedom” to which runaway slaves fled, specifically sites of formal freedom (free-soil regions where slavery had been abolished and refugees were legally free, even if the meanings of freedom in these places were heavily contested); semi-formal freedom (free-soil regions where slavery had been abolished but asylum for runaway slaves was either denied or contested, such as the northern U.S., where state abolition laws were curtailed by federal fugitive slave laws); and informal freedom (places within the slaveholding South where runaways formed maroon communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations and pass for free). This edited volume encourages scholars to reroute and reconceptualize the geography of slavery and freedom in antebellum North America.

The Paradox of Enlightened Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-70
Author(s):  
Martin Summers
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Patient Population ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Fugitive Slaves ◽  
Therapeutic Regime ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
General Operation

This chapter covers Saint Elizabeths during the tenure of its first superintendent, Charles H. Nichols (1855–1877), including the impact of the Civil War on the composition of the patient population, the general operation of the hospital, and the overall treatment of African American patients. Although blacks were among the soldiers, sailors, and federal prisoners admitted to the hospital in its early years, the majority of African American patients were indigent civilian residents of the District. The Civil War led to emancipation in the District and the influx of contrabands—black refugees and fugitive slaves—into the city, making it difficult for hospital officials to employ a strict residency requirement for admission. The chapter also explores the ways in which racial discrimination characterized the hospital’s therapeutic regime. It further reveals how African American patients and their families sought to shape their own experiences in the hospital.

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