Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space,

Essays address the issue of freedom as it applies to slaves in American history, discussing how African Americans resisted slavery and what their response was t

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad t

A popular misconception about the American Revolution is that it was largely contained within the continental boundaries of North America. However, the American

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union ar