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Between slavery and freedom : free people of color in America from settlement to the Civil War / Julie Winch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winch, Julie, author.
- Series:
- The African American Experience Series.
- The African American Experience Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free African Americans.
- Race relations--History--United States.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8182-117-3
- 1-4422-6224-9
- 0-7425-5115-6
- OCLC:
- 877770024
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