Freedom Seekers Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London【電子書籍】[ Simon P. Newman ]

＜p＞Winner of the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award, and joint winner of the prestigious 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, ＜em＞Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London＜/em＞ reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in England’s capital.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1655 White Londoners began advertising in the English-speaking world’s first newspapers for enslaved people who had escaped. Based on the advertisements placed in these newspapers by masters and enslavers offering rewards for so-called runaways, this book brings to light for the first time the history of slavery in England as revealed in the stories of resistance by enslaved workers. Featuring a series of case-studies of individual "freedom-seekers", this book explores the nature and significance of escape attempts as well as detailing th．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る