Pretends to Be Free: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey

Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pretends to Be Free" recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before and during the American Revolution. Through these notices, readers can discover how enslaved blacks chose allegiance during our War for Independence.

Replete with a preface by Ed Baptist, the leading scholar of slavery and capitalism and director of a massive project aimed at digitalizing every escape notice, and with a new Introduction and teacher's guide by Graham Hodges, this new edition makes this documentary study more relevant than ever.

Author: Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/08/2019
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780823282159

About the Author
Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Edited By)
Graham Gao Hodges is George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University.

Alan Edward Brown (Edited By)
Alan Edward Brown is an attorney in Minneapolis and Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy