Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Thomas Mareite -- Copyright page / Thomas Mareite -- Acknowledgments / Thomas Mareite -- Maps, Figures, and Tables / Thomas Mareite -- Abbreviations / Thomas Mareite -- Introduction / Thomas Mareite -- Chapter 1 Experiencing Slavery, Imagining Freedom / Thomas Mareite -- Chapter 2 Geography, Mobility and Networks: Escaping through the US-Mexico Borderlands / Thomas Mareite -- Chapter 3 Self-Liberated Slaves and Asylum in Northeastern Mexico, 1803–1836 / Thomas Mareite -- Chapter 4 “Mexico Was Free! No Slave Clanked His Chains under Its Government”: Contests over Mexico’s Free Soil, 1836–1861 / Thomas Mareite -- Conclusion “Mexico Will Assuredly Be Overrun by the Slaves from the Southern States”: The Making of Free Soil, The Unmaking of the Second Slavery / Thomas Mareite -- Appendix 1 The Process of Abolition of Slavery in Early Independent Mexico following the Federalist Constitution of 1824 / Thomas Mareite -- Appendix 2 José Joaquín Ugarte to Señor Brigadier Marqués de Casa Calvo [Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O’Farrill], Nacogdoches, 11 September 1804 / Thomas Mareite -- Glossary of Spanish Terms / Thomas Mareite -- Bibliography / Thomas Mareite -- Index / Thomas Mareite.

While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom , Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.

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