Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland Contributor(s): Smardz Frost, Karolyn (Editor), Tucker, Veta Smith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 081433959X ISBN-13: 9780814339596 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $35.14 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Slavery - Political Science | Civil Rights |
Dewey: 973.711 |
LCCN: 2015946924 |
Series: Great Lakes Books |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7" W x 9.9" (1.40 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a place of freedom and opportunity. In A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland, editors Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker explore the experiences of the area's freedom-seekers and advocates, both black and white, against the backdrop of the social forces--legal, political, social, religious, and economic--that shaped the meaning of race and management of slavery on both sides of the river. |