Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers

by Matthew J Clavin and Matthew J. Clavin

In the decades before the Civil War, the small number of slaves who managed to escape bondage almost always made their way northward along the secret routes and safe havens known as the Underground Railroad. Offering a new perspective on this standard narrative, Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by--paradoxically--sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674088220
• ISBN13: 9780674088221
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"