ABSTRACT This study evaluates the attitudes of slaveholders towards slavery in Maryland’s Tidewater region during the Early Republic, through the examination of their claims for slave property lost in the War of 1812. Of the minority of claimants who created a discourse about their slaves’ escapes, about half refused to believe their slaves wanted to escape, suggesting that the paternalistic ideology of slave management had more appeal in the Upper South before Nat Turner’s Rebellion than previously thought.

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“私奔”或“被诱走”：1831 年之前马里兰州奴隶主的焦虑和家长式作风

摘要 本研究通过审查他们对 1812 年战争中失去的奴隶财产的索赔，评估了共和国早期马里兰州潮水地区奴隶主对奴隶制的态度。大约一半的人拒绝相信他们的奴隶想要逃跑，这表明在纳特纳叛乱之前，奴隶管理的家长式意识形态在上南部比以前认为的更具吸引力。