Description
In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
About the Author
Marcus Nevius is an associate professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from North Carolina Central University, and a Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. His research centers around early African American history, history of the early republic, slave labor and resistance, and history of the African diaspora.
Patrick Rael is a professor of history at Bowdoin College and one of the general editors of the Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 series. His books include Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North and African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. Rael is an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer, 2010-2015.
Book Information
ISBN 9780820356426
Author Marcus P. Nevius
Format Hardback
Page Count 168
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 400g