The dawn of Detroit : a chronicle of slavery and freedom in the city of the straits
Title:
The dawn of Detroit : a chronicle of slavery and freedom in the city of the straits
Author:
Miles, Tiya, 1970- author.
ISBN:
9781620972311
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Publication Information:
New York :
The New Press,
2017.
Physical Description:
pages cm.
Contents:
Introduction: the coast of the strait -- The straits of slavery (1760-1770) -- The war for liberty (1774-1783) -- The wild northwest (1783-1803) -- The winds of change (1802-1807) -- The rise of the renegades (1807-1815) -- Conclusion: the American city (1817 and beyond) -- Coda: a note on historical conversations and concepts.
Abstract:
A celebrated historian dispels the long-accepted fact that slavery was a largely Southern institution and that the Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad by detailing the lives and struggles of slaves in the frontier outpost of Detroit.
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