Shadrach Minkins
From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
Samenvatting
In 1851 Minkins, the first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, became the catalyst of a dramatic episodes of antebellum rebellion and legal wrangling. Collison restores an extraordinary chapter to American history and offers an engrossing portrait of an ordinary Black man in 19th-century North America.

