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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette : Charleston, South Carolina, 1787–1797

By Thomas Brown; Leah Sims

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9781498507820, 9781498507813
LCC
F279.C457 -- B76 2015eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
704 kB (721309 bytes)
Pages
407\0
Time added
2023-08-14 22:59:52
advertisingNewspaper - South Carolina - Charleston - History

Description

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston’s daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority. The advertisements give insight not only into slave resistance, agency, and culture, but also into eighteenth century material life, economy, and racial ideology. The ads are also a rich source of data about the individual slaves themselves, their relationships, family connections, and life experiences. The book is accompanied by a website, fugitiveslaves.com. The website allows users to search the results of a comprehensive content analysis of the advertisements.

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