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- Slavery in Detroit grew out of the bustling fur trade when the settlement was still under French control, Miles says. As trade ramped up along the busy river port, the power brokers needed a labor force – to grow and process food, handle fur, operate boats, maintain domestic spaces, and more.
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Feb 19, 2018 · Slavery in Detroit grew out of the bustling fur trade when the settlement was still under French control, Miles says. As trade ramped up along the busy river port, the power brokers needed a labor force – to grow and process food, handle fur, operate boats, maintain domestic spaces, and more.
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Mar 1, 2020 · Native slavery predominated in Detroit but, when it appears at all, black slavery monopolizes the archives. This fact relates and divides peoples of African and native descent and inflects how they view their distinctive and intertwined histories.
- Daniel C. Littlefield
- 2020
In the days before the Civil War began, Detroit was an important site on the Underground Railroad, in which local people aided the passage of fugitive slaves to freedom. Its location just across the river from Canada, where slavery was abolished in 1834, made it a destination for many seeking freedom.
Although Detroit, or the North in general, is often perceived to have been abolitionist and free of slavery, slavery indeed played a role in the city's history. Captive indigenous and African people contributed to the early development of the city.
Oct 27, 2017 · While the history of colonial and early Detroit has been told from many perspectives and is now a growing area of historical inquiry, published studies tend to render invisible or inconsequential the existence, struggles, and contributions of enslaved people in the city.
Detroit’s abolitionists, particularly its Black Underground Railroad leaders, will be bold in their battle against slavery. In 1833, an uprising is organized to free Thornton and Lucie Blackburn from the clutches of the Wayne County Sheriff and two slavecatchers.
Mar 25, 2022 · Author Tiya Miles, a Harvard University historian, recounts how the European settlement along the Detroit River and economic ventures in the “City of the Straits,” shaped slavery in Michigan. The fertile trade connection to the Great Lakes was ultimately an invitation to settle there for fur traders who owned slaves.
