{"id":402,"date":"2025-08-26T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/?page_id=402"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:19:35","slug":"fugitive-slaves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/course-syllabus\/fugitive-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/UGRR-Handbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-403\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/UGRR-Handbook.jpg\" alt=\"UGRR Handbook\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/UGRR-Handbook.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/UGRR-Handbook-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorized image depicting the 1851 Christiana riot (<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/\">House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>TEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/texts\/frances-ellen-watkins-bury-me-in-a-free-land-1858\/\">Watkins, &#8220;Bury Me in a Free Land&#8221; (1858)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>32 line poem with eight stanzas in iambic pentameter with AABB rhyme scheme<\/li>\n<li>First published in an Ohio abolitionist newspaper: <em>Anti-Slavery Bugle<\/em> on Nov. 20, 1858<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CONTEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/13-the-sectional-crisis\/#IV_Free_Soil_Free_Labor_Free_Men\">Sectional Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Watkins (Harper) wrote to <strong>William Still<\/strong> earlier in 1858:\u00a0 &#8220;I might be so glad if it was only so that I could go home among my own kindred and people [in Maryland], but slavery comes up like a dark shadow between me and the home of my childhood. Well, perhaps it is my lot to die from home and be buried among strangers.&#8221;\u00a0 Then she included what later became the first stanza of her poem, &#8220;Bury Me in a Free Land.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abolitionists<\/strong> began organizing for immediate moral confrontation with slavery (what they termed &#8220;moral suasion&#8221;) under the leadership of editor William Lloyd Garrison in 1831 and with prodding from free black <strong>&#8220;vigilance&#8221;<\/strong> activists like David Walker and David Ruggles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SUBTEXT:\u00a0 Freedom or Family<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Which voice or perspective might be the centerpiece of this poem?<\/li>\n<li>Why were most fugitive slaves young, single men?<\/li>\n<li>According to historian Kate Larson, what kinds of roles did women like Frances Watkins Harper play in the Underground Railroad?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>METHODS CENTER &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2015\/11\/05\/evaluating-sources\/\">Types of Sources<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the difference between primary and secondary sources<\/li>\n<li>And don&#8217;t forget the main purpose of tertiary (third) sources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXT:\u00a0 Watkins, &#8220;Bury Me in a Free Land&#8221; (1858) 32 line poem with eight stanzas in iambic pentameter with AABB rhyme scheme First published in an Ohio abolitionist newspaper: Anti-Slavery Bugle on Nov. 20, 1858 CONTEXT:\u00a0 Sectional Crisis Watkins (Harper) wrote to William Still earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions\/977"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}