Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820
Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820

Author: Daniel Meaders

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1317777050

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This collection of runaway slave notices from Virginia highlights the plight of African Americans fleeing bondage in early nineteenth century Virginia. Presented in modern type, the advertisements appear exactly as published. The preface situates these advertisements historically, and indicates the significance of the collection for studies of African American history, the history of slavery, and resistance to slavery in early American culture. The advertisements are presented chronologically and index by slave and master. This collection of historical documentation will be valuable to scholars interested in the history of slavery and resistance in America.

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette
Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette

Author: Thomas Brown

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1498507824

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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 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.

Running for Freedom
Running for Freedom

Author: Freddie L. Parker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9780815310051

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Focusing on North Carolina, and making use of detailed 18th and 19th-century newspaper advertisements for nearly 2,800 runaway slaves, explores the origins, growth and distribution of the black population; slave owners, runaways and the law; a physical portrait of runaway slaves; slave personalitie