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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453942903321

Autore

Winch Julie <1953->

Titolo

Between slavery and freedom : free people of color in America from settlement to the Civil War / / Julie Winch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-6224-9

0-7425-5115-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

The African American history series

Disciplina

973/.0496073

Soggetti

Free African Americans - History

Free African Americans - Social conditions

Free African Americans - Attitudes - History

Electronic books.

United States Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : "On liberty's borderlands -- Property or persons: black freedom in colonial America, 1513-1770 -- In liberty's cause: black freedom in revolutionary America, 1770-1790 -- Race, liberty and citizenship in the new nation, 1790-1820 -- "We will have our rights": redefining black freedom, 1820-1850 -- "No rights which the white man was bound to respect": black freedom and black citizenship, 1850-1861 -- Epilogue : black freedom, white freedom.

Sommario/riassunto

Between Slavery and Freedom explores one of the central ironies of racial dynamics in this nation's history from the colonial era to the end of the Civil War.