Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 by Stanley Har

Description: Subversives by Stanley Harrold This work is a history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of the Americas capital. It describes how desperate African Americans and sympathetic whites engaged in a campaign to drive the "peculiar institution" out of Washington, DC and the Chesapeake region. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of the nations capital. Historian Stanley Harrold looks beyond resolutions, platforms, and debates to describe how desperate African Americans - both free and slave - and sympathetic whites engaged in a dangerous day-to-day campaign to drive the "peculiar institution" out of Washington, D.C., and the Chesapeake region. That slavery was both vulnerable and vicious in Washington is at the heart of Harrolds study. As economic changes caused slaverys decline in the Chesapeake and masters dismembered slave families by selling them South, local African Americans sought and received the support of a small number of whites eager to strike a blow against slavery in a strategic and very symbolic setting. Together they formed a subversive community that flourished in and about the city from the late 1820s through the mid-1860s.Risking beatings, mob violence, imprisonment, and death, these men and women distributed abolitionist literature, purchased the freedom of slaves, sued to prevent families from being separated, and aided escape efforts. Harrold overcomes the secrecy inherent in Washingtons antislavery community to document its formation and activities with remarkable detail and perception. He shows how slaveholders and their sympathizers fought to reinforce their hold on a system under attack and how the dissidents raised a radical challenge to the existing social order simply by engaging in interracial cooperation. Author Biography Stanley Harrold, professor of history at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, is the author of American Abolitionists, among other books. Details ISBN0807128384 Author Stanley Harrold Short Title SUBVERSIVES Language English ISBN-10 0807128384 ISBN-13 9780807128381 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Imprint Louisiana State University Press Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Baton Rouge Residence Orangeburg, SC, US Pages 280 Subtitle Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 DOI 10.1604/9780807128381 AU Release Date 2002-12-01 NZ Release Date 2002-12-01 UK Release Date 2002-12-01 Publisher Louisiana State University Press Series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-12-30 DEWEY 326.80975309034 Audience Undergraduate US Release Date 2002-12-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101431406;

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