Date of Award
Fall 12-2017
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
History
Department
History
Major Professor
Mitchell, Mary
Second Advisor
Atkinson, Connie
Third Advisor
Mosterman, Andrea
Abstract
This paper explores fugitive slave advertisements from the pages of the New Orleans Argus in 1828. As the main repository for runaway slave advertisements in New Orleans at the time, the Argus played a critical role in policing and surveillance of the city’s enslaved population just as New Orleans was becoming the largest slave market in the South. Using the Argus as well as historians’ accounts of the city, this thesis argues that as the market in enslaved people grew, slave owners depended upon local jailers in tandem with papers like the Argus, to police the enslaved population. The large volume of these advertisements, however, also testifies to enslaved people’s frequent rejection of bondage. This thesis is designed primarily as an index of the existing ads for 1828 with the aim of assisting further research into these sources.
Recommended Citation
Garbutt, Tara L., "Found Missing: Fugitive Slaves, Jailer ads, and Surveillance in Antebellum New Orleans" (2017). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2405.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2405
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