In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic by Wallace, Shaun R. C.
In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic by Wallace, Shaun R. C.

In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic

In Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early...
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Author: Shaun R. C. Wallace
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Language: English
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In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic by Wallace, Shaun R. C.

In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic

$59.32
In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic by Wallace, Shaun R. C.

In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic

$59.32
Author: Shaun R. C. Wallace
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early American South. Recovering, reconstructing, and reimagining stories that fugitive slaves compelled enslavers to advertise in print when they fled, the book unearths articulations of agency and expressions of resistance by enslaved persons. Drawing on a database of nearly six thousand advertisements, Wallace challenges the historiographical tendency to interpret escape as a rebellious response to the conditions of enslavement by emphasizing the agency behind freedom-seekers' decision to escape. In Pursuit of Freedom explores the complexities of fugitivity--a phenomenon that Wallace defines as a "transitionary moment" in a wider freedom struggle as fugitive slaves distanced themselves, physically and psychologically, from bondage--in the Upper South (Maryland) and Lower South (Georgia). In so doing, Wallace illuminates what fugitive slave advertisements can tell us about slavery in those regions, the lives of those who fled, and the actions of the enslaved in the early American republic.

Author: Shaun R. C. Wallace
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 05/01/2026
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780820375489

About the Author
SHAUN R. C. WALLACE is a senior lecturer in U.S. history at the University of Bristol. His research on fugitive slaves in Georgia and Maryland included the creation of the Fugitive Slave Database, a unique digital archive preserving one of the largest collections of fugitive slave advertisements published between 1790 and 1810.
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