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Article: Fleeing Death, Seeking Life.(authors of 'Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation')(Interview)
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- American Visions
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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We cherish their stories. The runaways. those proud, hopeful, courageous men, women and children who surrendered their lives to darkness, to swamps, to the illumination of stars. Nearly 150 years after emancipation, we continue to embrace their strength and rely on their example. Their hymns remain our anthems.
Yet how much do we know of their achievement? When did the cost of enslavement become too great for them to bear? In the recently published book Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (Oxford University Press, 1999), John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke professor of history emeritus at Duke University, and Loren Schweninger, professor of history at the ...