“Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks were not able to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of white Americans.
“They lived with the constant threat of kidnapping and enslavement against which they had little recourse.”
-- From publicity for the book “Freedom at Risk”, by Carol Wilson (Associate Professor of History; Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland; Director of Gender Studies; E-mail: cwilson2@washcoll.edu ; Phone: 800-422-1782, ext. 7759)
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