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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Winch, Julie, 1953- author.
Imprint:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (188 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The African American History Series African-American history series.
Subject:	Free African Americans -- History. Free African Americans -- Social conditions. Free African Americans -- Attitudes -- History. Free African Americans. Free African Americans -- Social conditions. Race relations. United States -- Race relations -- History. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675660

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ISBN:	9780742551152 0742551156 9780742551145 0742551148
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Winch, Julie, 1953- Between slavery and freedom. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014] 9780742551145

Table of 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.