Harriet Tubman
Transnationalism and the Land of a Queen in the Late Antebellum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4051968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dann J Broyld (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 78-98 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meridians (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/meridians.12.2.78 |
| OpenAlex | W2039564749 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Harriet Tubman and female fugitives from the United States maintained elevated expectations for British Canada during the late antebellum period. Their quest to reach Canadian soil was twofold: they wanted to resist enslavement in America, and also to sidestep sexual exploitation and gender degradation. Female runaways and refugees reasoned that their dual desires could be achieved in Canada, both because slavery had been abolished there via the Imperial Act of 1834 and because Queen Victoria's reign, starting in 1837, gave the impression of greater esteem and rights for women. Unfortunately, what they found on the "Queen's soil" was that racism as well as sexist beliefs were a transcending sentiment, which did not discontinue at the American-Canadian international border. Still, these women in the dominion of Canada fought to challenge constructed borders, whether racial, sexual, or national
Dominion · Economic history · Political science · Politics · Racism · Refugee · Reign · Sociology · American History and Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis
Slavery and freedom on the middle ground
Slave testimony
The Extradition of Fugitive Slaves from Canada
We're rooted here and they can't pull us up
Race on Trial
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Experience Rather than Imagination
Crossing Over Cross
Finding a Place
The Burned-over District Reconsidered
The Burned-over District
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
As a Nation, the English Are Our Friends”
The Contestation over National Identity
Hands Across the Border
Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands
A Modern Moses
Slaves of the Chesapeake Bay Area and the War of 1812
The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |