Sailing to Freedom
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19th-century African American resistance
19th-century fugitive slave escapes
abolitionist maritime networks
African American escape narratives
African American escape stories
African American freedom activism
African American freedom journeys
African American historical essays
African American history in Philadelphia
African American labor and freedom
African American maritime community history
African American maritime history
African American maritime scholarship
African American mobility in
African American self-emancipation
antebellum escape by ship
antebellum Northward migration
Antebellum period
Atlantic Coast freedom network
Atlantic seaboard freedom routes
Boston and New Bedford escape routes
Carolinas maritime escape routes
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Charleston
East Coast fugitive routes
enslaved people escaping by sea
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escape and survival along the East Coast
Fugitive Slave Act
hidden histories of the Underground Railroad
Maritime America
maritime history and slavery studies
maritime history of slavery
maritime pathways for enslaved people
maritime routes in abolitionist history
maritime routes to the North
maritime travel in slavery
maritime Underground Railroad
Maryland to northern cities escapes
New York City Underground Railroad history
Northern port cities and slavery
Northern ports and fugitive slaves
northern safe havens for fugitive slaves
paid and unpaid waterfront work
Philadelphia as a freedom destination
sea escapes from slavery
sea journeys to freedom
slavery and waterfront labor
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad by water
Virginia enslaved people escaping
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345936
- Weight: 515g
- Dimensions: 151 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans.
With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston.
In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston.
In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
Timothy D. Walker is professor of history at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
