Runaway Slaves by John Hope Franklin
This is a precedent-breaking book on slave resistance and runaway slaves in the American South before the Civil War. The book's thesis is that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has usually been attributed, and, specifically, that slaves attempted to run away from their masters whenever they could. John Hope Franklin is the most distinguished African American historian in America.
they provide an amazing wealth of detail on the backgrounds and experiences of bondsmen and bondswomen who were so discontented with slavery, or at least with their particular experience of it, that they simply ran away/ John Shelton Read, the William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the TLS, 30/04/99
John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the author of numerous books, including the epic From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, which boasts more than three million copies in print. Loren Schweninger is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195084498 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195084497 |
| Title | Runaway Slaves |
| Author | John Hope Franklin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1999-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Prizes | Winner of Named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 by ^IChoice^R. |
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