Duty and Love: Flora Lee’s Resistance to Slavery in Revolutionary Marblehead.
In: New England Quarterly, Jg. 96 (2023-06-01), Heft 2, S. 96-120
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The article recounts the life of enslaved African American woman Flora Lee, focusing on her resistance to slavery during the Revolutionary era in Massachusetts. It shows the fight of Lee to prevent the breakup of her family and her efforts to force emancipation. Historical information is provided on the pattern of generational slavery in 18th century New England, the illegal capture and transportation of free people of color who came to Nova Scotia, and the measles epidemic in Halifax in 1783.
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Duty and Love: Flora Lee’s Resistance to Slavery in Revolutionary Marblehead.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | O’BRIEN, G. PATRICK |
Zeitschrift: | New England Quarterly, Jg. 96 (2023-06-01), Heft 2, S. 96-120 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0028-4866 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1162/tneq_a_00989 |
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