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Between slavery and freedom : free people of color in America from settlement to the Civil War Julie Winch
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 185.18 .W57 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winch, Julie, 1953- author.
- Series:
- African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
- The African American history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free African Americans--History.
- Free African Americans.
- Free African Americans--Social conditions.
- Free African Americans--Attitudes--History.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 151 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line -- 1) Portrait, James Forten (DAMS 151), Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records [ collection 0008]; cover art and 12th page of unnumbered illustrations located between pages 83 and 85. 2) Portrait, Francis Johnson (DAMS 2293), Ferdinand Julius Dreer collection [collection1075]; 14th page of unnumbered illustrations located between pages 83 and 85.
- ISBN:
- 9780742551145 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0742551148 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780742551152 (electronic)
- 0742551156 (electronic)
- OCLC:
- 863801781
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