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Runaway Slaves
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Runaway Slaves (1999) (edit title/settings)

Rebels on the Plantation

by John Hope Franklin (Author), Loren Schweninger (Author) (edit contributors)

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From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from... read more

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ON 17 AUGUST 1840, the day of a great Whig political convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Jake, a slave owned by an old and respected farmer, Robert Bradford, refused to go to work.

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  1. John Hope Franklin (Author)
  2. Loren Schweninger (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0195084497
Page Count: 480

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