Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

Part I. Origins to 1838: 1. Refugees all: the origins of the Underground Railroad; Part II. 1838-1850: 2. Under siege: borderland activists confront the violence of mastery; 3. Bondage and dignity: accommodation and collision in the contested region; 4. Free soil: Prigg, Latimer, and open resistance in the upper north; Part III. 1850-1860: 5. Law and degradation: lethal violence and beleaguered resistance in the borderland; 6. Above ground: open defiance and the limits of free soil; 7. The end of toleration: the collapse of the Fugitive Slave Act in the contested region; Epilogue: cultures of violence, secession, and war; Appendix: fugitive slave rescues, 1794-1861.

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