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Article: DRAMA THE RUNAWAY IN `SLAVES'.(Books)(Review)

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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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May 16, 1999
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Byline: C.W. Buchholtz

Runaway Slaves

By John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger.

Oxford University Press, 428 pages, $35.

Slavery in America is something many people would prefer to forget. After the Civil War, even historians treated the subject gingerly. Some argued it wasn't so bad after all, something like a ``conscript army,'' with Southern plantations being a ``parish, or perhaps a chapel of ease.''

Here, Professors John Hope Franklin of Duke University and Loren Schweninger of the University of North Carolina intend to set the record straight. ``Many people still believe that slaves were generally content,'' they ...

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