R Blackett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Blackett |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackett |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKETT R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Underground Railroad and the Struggle Against Slavery
The heart of the Underground Railroad beats with the energy and determination of the enslaved who chose to flee slavery and the many people, black and white, who aided them. The four stories told here examine the motives of those who fled by looking at their actions and suggest ways to measure the political impact of their actions and how they influenced the debate over the future of slavery in that critical decade leading up to the Civil War. St…
More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
When two Georgia slave catchers arrived in Boston in October 1850 in search of William Craft and Ellen Craft, who had escaped almost two years earlier, they were relatively confident they would nab their prey. After all, Congress had recently enacted the most draconian fugitive slave law, which disrupted the lives of many in northern black communities. But the Georgians had miscalculated terribly; within days they were forced to flee the city emp…
Lincoln and Colonization
From the inception of the antislavery movement, both in Great Britain and the United States, colonization which called for the removal of freed people from the place of their enslavement, seemed to provide an answer to the troubling question: what was to be done with the Negro? Its first and, some would say, most daring experiment was in the establishment of Sierra Leone by British abolitionists in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The c…
Lincoln and Colonization
From the inception of the antislavery movement, both in Great Britain and the United States, colonization which called for the removal of freed people from the place of their enslavement, seemed to provide an answer to the troubling question: what was to be done with the Negro? Its first and, some would say, most daring experiment was in the establishment of Sierra Leone by British abolitionists in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The c…
Lincoln and Colonization
From the inception of the antislavery movement, both in Great Britain and the United States, colonization which called for the removal of freed people from the place of their enslavement, seemed to provide an answer to the troubling question: what was to be done with the Negro? Its first and, some would say, most daring experiment was in the establishment of Sierra Leone by British abolitionists in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The c…
More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
When two Georgia slave catchers arrived in Boston in October 1850 in search of William Craft and Ellen Craft, who had escaped almost two years earlier, they were relatively confident they would nab their prey. After all, Congress had recently enacted the most draconian fugitive slave law, which disrupted the lives of many in northern black communities. But the Georgians had miscalculated terribly; within days they were forced to flee the city emp…
The Underground Railroad and the Struggle Against Slavery
The heart of the Underground Railroad beats with the energy and determination of the enslaved who chose to flee slavery and the many people, black and white, who aided them. The four stories told here examine the motives of those who fled by looking at their actions and suggest ways to measure the political impact of their actions and how they influenced the debate over the future of slavery in that critical decade leading up to the Civil War. St…
History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abolitionism (1 works)