From Danielle Legros George's fellowship report:
At the AAS, I set out to expand my initial project’s geographic footprint to cover the experiences of Black people in New England between the 18th and 19th centuries within the period of slavery’s existence there. Questions and areas of inquiry for me included: How did Africans/African-Americans practice self-emancipation? What did individual resistance look like? What could I learn from fugitive slave ads? How did women’s resistance present itself? What of children and resistance? How were courts used by enslaved persons in the service of their own liberation? What did collective resistance resemble? And what of marronage in the North? I was interested in material that would allow me to see the enslaved and self-freed, and to hear their voices as much as possible through documents and artifacts.