fugitivity - AAIHS

Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Between 1829

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. If I had to choose a single