| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. By John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xx, 455 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-508449-7.)

As William Eaton lounged on the deck of a steamer carrying him down the Roanoke River toward his plantation near Warrenton, North Carolina, he was startled to see his slave Solomon calmly poling a barge upriver. Heaped upon the barge was an enormous quantity of plantation goods, including Eaton's finest carriage. A few miles farther south, around Beaufort, Jim, a slave of rather delicate features, disguised himself as a woman named Sally Turner. Jim, or Sally, made it as far as Savannah before he was captured. Returned to his master, Jim promptly donned another dress and ran away again. 1

Fifty-six years after the publication of The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790–1860 (1943), John Hope Franklin has never forgotten the importance of human agency, nor has he lost his eye for a small story that speaks volumes. Together with his coauthor, Loren Schweninger, Franklin recounts literally hundreds of case studies, divided into broad categories that examine why bondpeople fled, where they fled to, and what their life was like on the run. Subsequent chapters document the plight of free blacks sold as fugitives, the part played by plantation overseers in slave flight, and the financial cost to the master class. . . .

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