{"product_id":"migrants-against-slavery-virginians-and-the-nation-9780813920085","title":"Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Philip J. Schwarz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants in a society grounded in bondage; fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves; free African Americans searched for greater opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Migrants against Slavery Philip J. Schwarz suggests that antislavery migrant Virginians, both the famous--such as fugitive Anthony Burns and abolitionist Edward Coles--and the lesser known, deserve closer scrutiny. Their migration and its aftermath, he argues, intensified the national controversy over human bondage, playing a larger role than previous historians have realized in shaping American identity and in Americans' effort to define the meaning of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47781073387671,"sku":"9780813920085","price":5447.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813920085.webp?v=1778050376","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/migrants-against-slavery-virginians-and-the-nation-9780813920085","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}