| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kathryn Grover. The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 350. $39.95.

American historians need not puzzle any longer about why New Bedford, Massachusetts, proved a hotbed of antislavery sentiment before the Civil War. In her remarkably rich study, Kathryn Grover carefully explains that this leading whaling center took its political cues from a large and often militant community of African Americans befriended by groups of white abolitionists and antislavery advocates typically affiliated with unusually large concentrations of Baptists and Quakers. She draws particular attention to the city's African Americans, using a wide variety of sources to depict scores of them in loving detail; if an African-American man lived in New Bedford, lingered there, or simply passed through, he is likely to be in this book, and not just as a name. Grover shows how they got to New Bedford; where they lived, worshipped, and earned a living; what they did for their people; whether they were slaves, fugitives from slavery, or fellow citizens of Massachusetts. . . .

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