The Fugitives Gibraltar (781)

Escaping Slaves And Abolitionism In New Bedford, Massachusetts

BY KATRYN GROVER

Brief Description:
SECONDHAND COPY, fair condition, hardback. Between 1790 and the Civil War, New Bedford, Massachusetts, became known not only as the whaling capital of the world but also as one of the greatest asylums for fugitive slaves. As many as 700 of the city's black residents were said to be fugitives. Among those who found safe haven there were Frederick Douglass, Henry Box Brown, and others whose accounts of escape from bondage were published and widely circulated among reformers of both races. But how did New Bedford come to be seen as a haven for fugitives, and was antislavery truly, as one whaling merchant put it, "the ruling sentiment of the town"?

Mass 2001 349 PP. Cloth

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