| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation. By Philip J. Schwarz. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. xii, 250 pp. $38.50, ISBN 0-8139-2008-6.)

"The experience of Americans made rootless by slavery should be systematically and comprehensively factored into general explanations of American migration," writes Philip J. Schwarz at the beginning of this provocative and important study. His window into the world of antislavery migrants is Virginia, a state that provided substantial outmigration to free as well as slave territory in the decades prior to the Civil War. Schwarz selects a number of fascinating case studies to illustrate his interpretative points, and along the way he shows us both the range and the impact of the men and women, black and white, slave and free, who bore testament to their antislavery views by abandoning their native soil. . . .

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