Criminalizing a race : free blacks during slavery / Charshee C. L. McIntyre.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Lawrence-McIntyre, Charshee Charlotte.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freed persons--United States.

Freed persons.

United States.

African Americans--History--To 1863.

African Americans.

History.

United States--Race relations--History.

Race relations.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, x pages, 1 unnumbered page, 218 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Free blacks during slavery.

Place of Publication:

Queens, New York : Kayode, 1993.

Contents:

Historical Precedents: The Creation of a Racialistic Social Structure

The Irish Precedent: The Perfecting of the System and Enslaving the Alien

The Quest for Freedom: The Avenues and Impediments

Safeguarding the System: The Importance of Color

The Free African American Population: The Growth and Socioeconomic Factors

Restrictive Legislation: The Impediments of Steady Growth

Race Theories: The Identifying of Persons of Mixed Ancestry

White/Black Racial Stratification: The Creation of a Two-Tier System

Colonization of African Americans: The Sketch of Early Advocates

The American Colonization Project: the Negative Literature and Criminal Imagery of African Americans

Reformers' Racist Attitudes Foster: the "Outsider Deviant" Group Identity

Imprisonment of African Americans: The Criminality of Blackness and Poverty.

Notes:

"Kayode's 1st Printing 1992. Kayode's 2nd Printing 1993."

"Cover design by Bundy Najieb."

Originally presented as author's thesis, SUNY Stony Brook, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

1879831082 :

OCLC:

28103313