Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America

by Antonio T. Bly

Overview

Escaping Slavery is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793632708
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	02/07/2022
Pages:	244
Sales rank:	1,092,742
Product dimensions:	6.33(w) x 8.95(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Antonio T. Bly is Peter H. Shattuck Endowed Chair in Colonial American History at California State University, Sacramento.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Social Death in the Lands of Their Forefathers

A Note on Notices

A Note on Newspapers

Chapter 1: New England Colonies

Chapter 2: Mid-Atlantic Colonies

Chapter 3: Southern Colonies

Appendix A: Advertisements for Mustees

Appendix B: As the Law Directs: Social Death in Julian’s Massachusetts

Appendix C: Julian’s Story as Broadsides Ephemera

Appendix D: Julian’s Story Memorialized

Appendix E: Timeline of Julian’s Story

Appendix F: Julian the Indian in Court Records

Appendix G: Graphic Representation of Native American Fugitives

Appendix H: Public Days in Julian’s Massachusetts: Advertising Native American Slavery,

Servitude, and Social Death in Eighteenth-Century America

Glossary

Index

About the Author