“Freedom in Their Hands is a Deadly Poison”: Print Culture, Legal Movements, and Slaveholding Resistance on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1850-61

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dc.contributor.advisorBonner, Christopheren_US
dc.contributor.authorChaires, Jacob Wayneen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-02T06:30:12Z
dc.date.available2022-02-02T06:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractThe goal of this thesis is twofold: to explain the rise of slaveholding anxiety in relation to the growing free black question, as well as to articulate how slaveholders sought to regain their power. I argue that slaveholders on the Eastern Shore politically organized around ideas and concepts produced in newspapers. Slaveholders utilized new ideas about race and the law to organize, and call upon the General Assembly to enact tougher sanctions on free black mobility. Newspapers are not only a means by which to quote mine, but they are also living, breathing, cultural organisms. They both reflect slaveholding anxieties, as well as play into them. They both record local news events, as well as conspicuously pair those local stories with similar stories from other counties, states, and nations.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/0mql-ghjb
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/28306
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAfrican historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAfrican studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEastern Shoreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFree Blacken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledKent Countyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPoliticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSlaveryen_US
dc.title“Freedom in Their Hands is a Deadly Poison”: Print Culture, Legal Movements, and Slaveholding Resistance on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1850-61en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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