Julie Winch

Between Slavery and Freedom

Free People of Color in America from Settlement to the Civil War
Herausgeber: Moore, Jacqueline M; Mjagkij, Nina

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Produktbeschreibung

In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the "borderlands" between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780742551145
• ISBN-10: 0742551148
• Artikelnr.: 39294017

Autorenporträt

Julie Winch is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she specializes in the lives and genealogies of African Americans in the Revolutionary era and the Early American Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Timeline Introduction
On Liberty's Borderlands Chapter One
Property or Persons: Black Freedom in Colonial America, 1513
1770 Chapter Two
In Liberty's Cause: Black Freedom in Revolutionary America, 1770
1790 Chapter Three
Race, Liberty and Citizenship in the New Nation, 1790
1820 Chapter Four
"We Will Have Our Rights": Redefining Black Freedom, 1820
1850 Chapter Five
"No Rights Which the White Man Was Bound to Respect": Black Freedom and Black Citizenship, 1850
1861 Epilogue
Black Freedom, White Freedom Suggested Readings Documents