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Article: Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation.(Review)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
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- May 24, 2001
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation By John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger Oxford University Press, 455pp., $16.95
In the course of human events, it sometimes becomes necessary for one people, regardless of color, gender or age, to dissolve the bonds which have connected them to another and to assume the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which nature and nature's God entitle them. Bondage, unlike liberty, was not natural; therefore, each year until the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865 an untold number of enslaved men, women and children declared themselves independent.
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