Runaway America
Runaway America

Author: David Waldstreicher

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Published: 2005-08-10

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1466821523

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Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise central to the Revolution, America's founding, and the very notion of freedom we associate with both. Franklin was the sole Founding Father who was once owned by someone else and was among the few to derive his fortune from slavery. As an indentured servant, Franklin fled his master before his term was complete; as a struggling printer, he built a financial empire selling newspapers that not only advertised the goods of a slave economy (not to mention slaves) but also ran the notices that led to the recapture of runaway servants. Perhaps Waldstreicher's greatest achievement is in showing that this was not an ironic outcome but a calculated one. America's freedom, no less than Franklin's, demanded that others forgo liberty. Through the life of Franklin, Runaway America provides an original explanation to the paradox of American slavery and freedom.

America's Runaways
America's Runaways

Author: Christine Chapman

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Examines the problem of runaway children in the United States, with discussions of causes and possible cures, legal and political considerations, hostels for runaways, and methods of tracing missing youngsters.

Flight to Freedom
Flight to Freedom

Author: Alvin O. Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of Maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders.

American Runaway
American Runaway

Author: Audrey Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578810676

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Journalist Audrey Edwards swore she would leave America if Donald Trump was elected president. He was. And she did. Bolting for Paris. In this rich collection of essays, cultural and political commentary, and personal "race stories," an African American runaway of a certain age and wiseass perspective takes aim at America in its twilight-the Donald Trump years. And rediscovers as a self-liberated woman the magic that has always been Paris.

Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children in America
Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children in America

Author: David Finkelhor

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0788126512

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Estimates the incidence of 5 categories of children, those who were: abducted by family members; abducted by non-family members; runaways; thrownaways; and missing because they had gotten lost or injured, or for some other reason. Data was collected from 6 separate sources: household survey; juvenile facilities survey; returned runaway study; police records study; FBI data reanalysis; and community professionals study. Charts, tables and graphs.

Escaping Slavery
Escaping Slavery

Author: Antonio T. Bly

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2023-09-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781793632722

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This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.

South to Freedom
South to Freedom

Author: Alice L Baumgartner

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1541617770

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A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas

Author: Linda Levy Peck

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1526175339

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Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women’s experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women’s agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women’s experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.