Runaway Slaves

Named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 by ^IChoice^R

This work on runaway slaves in the American South pre-Civil War posits that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has been attributed, and, specifically, that slaves attempted to run away from their masters whenever they could.This is a precedent-breaking book on slave resistance and runaway slaves in the American South before the Civil War. The book's thesis is that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has usually been attributed, and, specifically, that slaves attempted to run away from their masters whenever they could. John Hope Franklin is the most distinguished African American historian in America.