Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshalled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could.įor generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Healthįrom John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Summary This work charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in the civilizations of Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, to their struggle for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America and the United States. Kennedy: Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights - App.

Government's Responsibility: Securing the Rights - App. The United Nations and Human Welfare - 22. The World of African Americans One World or Two? - 21. Roosevelt's 'Black Cabinet' Government Agencies and Relief for Blacks. Socioeconomic Problems and African-American Literature. The Harlem Renaissance and the Politics of African-American Culture. Northern Philanthropy and African-American Education. The Movement for Disfranchisement The Triumph of White Supremacy - 14.

Frontier Influences Black Pioneers in the Westward March. Blacks Fighting for American Independence. Slavery and the Revolutionary Philosophy. The Transplantation of African Culture - 3. AAPG copy 39088019788785 signed by author, 'To Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence, with admiration and affection.' Contents 1. Object Details Author Franklin, John Hope 1915-2009 Moss, Alfred A. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.

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