Aiming For Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves On The Atlantic And Southern Frontiers

Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.

• | Author: Matthew J. Clavin
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674088220
• | ISBN-13: 9780674088221