In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson

Authors

Angela F. Murphy

ISBN

9781570036873

Price

$29.95 hardcover

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Abstract

A Slave Rescue

In the Shadow of the Civil War is a narrative of a slave escape in antebellum Philadelphia and the resulting legal proceedings against an abolitionist who aided in the escape. In 1855 Jane Johnson and her children accompanied their owner, John Hill Wheeler of North Ca....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.10.1.12

Recommended Citation

Murphy, Angela F. (2008) "In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.10.1.12
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol10/iss1/12