Escape to the City

Viola Franziska Muller is a social historian at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany.

"A fascinating exploration of the experiences of fugitives from slavery. While most readers may think about the northern United States and Canada when considering most likely destinations for enslaved people in search of freedom, Mueller convincingly demonstrates that the cities of the South were important sites of refuge for countless enslaved persons."--Journal of Southern History "Escape to the City offers a freshly interdisciplinary example of how urban history, labor history, immigration studies, legal history, and the study of slavery together can offer new ways of considering the experience of fugitive enslaved people in the antebellum period. . . . Standing as an interdisciplinary evaluation of the antebellum experience of enslaved people seeking freedom, [Mueller's work] is recommended to any scholar seeking to engage in new ways of considering freedom."--North Carolina Historical Review "Mueller has provided a valuable resource for scholars of history at every level and should spark further exploration of the topic of unfreedom."-Journal of American History