Shadrach Minkins
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An historical biography recounting the life of Shadrach Minkins, his slavery, flight to freedom, arrest in Boston and escape to Montreal. Collison (English, Pennsylvania State U.) describes slave life in Norfolk, Virginia, and, through Minkins' story, the contrasts between fugitive life in Boston and freedom in Canada, developing a vital history of the period that includes the effects of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law on the black community, and the roles of such familiar figures as Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher in the pre-Civil War milieu of urban slavery, Boston Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad. Includes some photographs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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An historical biography recounting the life of Shadrach Minkins, his slavery, flight to freedom, arrest in Boston and escape to Montreal. Collison (English, Pennsylvania State U.) describes slave life in Norfolk, Virginia, and, through Minkins' story, the contrasts between fugitive life in Boston and freedom in Canada, developing a vital history of the period that includes the effects of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law on the black community, and the roles of such familiar figures as Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher in the pre-Civil War milieu of urban slavery, Boston Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad. Includes some photographs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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