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- catalog abstract "On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins' life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins' journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins' arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston's black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who, through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain.".
- catalog contributor b10149471.
- catalog coverage "Boston (Mass.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Montréal (Québec) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Norfolk (Va.) Biography.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-277) and index.".
- catalog description "Norfolk: "Han't got no self" -- "Horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children" -- "Silver trump of freedom" -- Boston: "Cradle of liberty"? -- "New reign of terror" -- "Much excitement prevails" -- "Thing or a man?" -- "Plucked as a brand from the burning" -- "Never was a darker day" -- North Star -- Montreal: "Please to remember me kindly" -- Home far away -- "Free at last! Free at last!" -- Militia petition by black residents of Montreal.".
- catalog description "On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins' life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins' journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins' arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston's black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who, through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain.".
- catalog extent "294 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Shadrach Minkins.".
- catalog identifier "0674802985 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shadrach Minkins.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Shadrach Minkins.".
- catalog spatial "Boston (Mass.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Boston".
- catalog spatial "Montréal (Québec) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Norfolk (Va.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Québec (Province) Montréal".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Norfolk".
- catalog subject "973.7/115/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans Québec (Province) Montréal History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "E450 .M653 1997".
- catalog subject "Fugitive slaves Massachusetts Boston Biography.".
- catalog subject "Minkins, Shadrach.".
- catalog subject "Slaves Virginia Norfolk Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Norfolk: "Han't got no self" -- "Horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children" -- "Silver trump of freedom" -- Boston: "Cradle of liberty"? -- "New reign of terror" -- "Much excitement prevails" -- "Thing or a man?" -- "Plucked as a brand from the burning" -- "Never was a darker day" -- North Star -- Montreal: "Please to remember me kindly" -- Home far away -- "Free at last! Free at last!" -- Militia petition by black residents of Montreal.".
- catalog title "Shadrach Minkins : from fugitive slave to citizen / Gary Collison.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".