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Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation
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A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuryVirginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from aslave society. All sought some kind of freedom: whites who left the Old Dominion toescape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants ina society grounded in bondage, fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves, free African Americans searched for greateropportunity.In Migrants against Slavery Philip J.Schwarz suggests that antislavery migrant Virginians, both the famous--such asfugitive Anthony Burns and abolitionist Edward Coles--and the lesser known, deservecloser scrutiny. Their migration and its aftermath, he argues, intensified thenational controversy over human bondage, playing a larger role than previoushistorians have realized in shaping American identity and in Americans' effort todefine the meaning of freedom.
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