Dispossessing Massa: Fugitive Slaves and the Politics of Slavery After 1850

Blackett, R. J. M.

doi:10.1080/14664650902908052

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“…Of course, hundreds of slaves did take big risks every year to try to escape permanently (especially from the Upper South), and Richard Blackett proves that the number of such fugitives was even greater than what has been previously believed. 19 But the number of bondpeople who fled temporarily to the local woods was far greater than the number who sought permanent escape. Temporary flight was one thing, and it might possibly be punished relatively leniently; but violent resistance was something different, and it was likely to be punished with draconian severity.…”

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