Maps
1 Approximate routes of escape for slave refugees in the Louisiana-Texas borderlands and through the Gulf of Mexico, c.1803–1836 85
2 Approximate routes of escape for slave refugees in the Texas-Mexico borderlands and through the Gulf of Mexico, c.1836–1861 87
Figures
1 The Louisiana-Texas borderlands after 1803. Courtesy of Rice University. Sketch of a part of the Boundary between Mexico & the United States as far as the Red River. 1838. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/35335 31
2 El Paso. Courtesy of Rice University. The Plaza and Church of El Paso, 1857. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/35793 99
3 San Antonio. Courtesy of Rice University. Military Plaza – San Antonio, Texas, 1857. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/35622 120
4 Matamoros during the US Civil War and the French Intervention. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Source: Bonwill, C.E.H., Artist, Loading Wagons on the Calle de Cesar, Matamoras, for Piedras Negras, from sketch by our special artist, C.E.H. Bonwill, Matamoras, Mexico, 1864. https://www.loc.gov/item/97518764/ 248
Tables
1 High and low extrapolations of yearly numbers of self-emancipated slaves absconding to Mexico (1840–1859) 42
2 Periodicity of escape attempts to Mexico (1840–1859) 57
3 Gender imbalance in escape attempts to Mexico (1840–1859) 66
4 Generational under- and over-representation in escape attempts to Mexico (1840–1859) 67
5 Individual and collective escape attempts to Mexico (1840–1859) 79
6 Main royal decrees and provisions for the Spanish free-soil policy in the early modern Americas (1680–1789) 131