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Stealing Freedom Along the Mason-Dixon Line:

Thomas McCreary, the Notorious Slave Catcher from Maryland
  • ISBN-13: 9780996594448
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: WOODROW WILSON CENTER PRESS
  • By Milt Diggins
  • Price: AUD $47.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 15/03/2016
  • Format: Paperback 254 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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This is the story of Thomas McCreary, a slave catcher from Cecil County, Maryland. Reviled by some, proclaimed a hero by others, he first drew public attention in the late 1840s for a career that peaked a few years after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Living and working as he did at the midpoint between Philadelphia, an important center for assisting fugitive slaves, and Baltimore, a major port in the slave trade, his story illustrates in raw detail the tensions that arose along the border between slavery and freedom just prior to the Civil War. McCreary and his community provide a framework to examine slave catching and kidnapping in the Baltimore-Wilmington-Philadelphia region and how those activities contributed to the nation's political and visceral divide.

Preface & Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Maelstrom
2. A Failed Compromise
3. ""Hanging the First Abolitionist that They Catch in Maryland""
4. The Trials of Rachel Parker
5. Kidnapping... or Slave Catching?
6. End of an Era
Afterword
References
Index

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