Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake - Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage 1775-1865 George A. Keepers Phil Rizzuto

Phil Rizzuto

Inspiration and ideas can strike at any moment

crowded environments and even by his own emotions and physical sensations

mesmerists and hypnotists paraded subjects who demonstrated insensitivity to pain and powers of clairvoyance

Controversial issues - phallocentrism

Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake - Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage 1775-1865 George A. Keepers Phil RizzutoA chronological account of nine decades of antislavery activity in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, culminating in the Civil War. Challenging slavery could entail negotiating for freedom by manumission; grasping freedom by flight or insurrection; or uniting with external allies in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, or the Civil War. Free black people also undermined slavery as workers, worshippers, teachers, and writers. Whites who aided black