On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
- ISBN-10
- 0823240363
- ISBN-13
- 9780823240364
- Category
- Abolitionists
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Author
- David Grant Smith
Description
In this work, Smith illuminates the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsylvania a border region of a border state with a complicated history of slavery antislavery activism, and unequal freedom.
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- 2014-12-15
- 344 pages
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- Fordham Univ Press
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- 2014-12-15
- 344 pages
- Ebook
- Fordham University Press
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