Rebels and runaways : slave resistance in nineteenth-century Florida / Larry Eugene Rivers.

Author
Rivers, Larry E., 1950- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012], ©2012.
Description
221 pages, [20] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Resistance by wiles
  • Day-to-day resistance
  • Stepping up the degrees of resistance
  • Running away
  • Away without leave
  • A yearning for freedom
  • Destinations of runaways
  • Flight away from Florida
  • In search of kinfolk and loved ones
  • Catch the runaway
  • Violent resistance
  • Slave violence
  • The Second Seminole War
  • The Civil War.
ISBN
  • 9780252036910 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252036913 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011051423
OCLC
759910064
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