R Isabela Morales

Happy Dreams of Liberty

An American Family in Slavery and Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

A beautifully narrated and rich saga of one family's journey from slavery to freedom--and from the South to the North and West--set against Americans' changing attitudes towards mixed-race people from the late antebellum period to the Jim Crow era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780197531792
• ISBN-10: 0197531792
• Artikelnr.: 62574403

Autorenporträt

R. Isabela Morales is the Editor and Project Manager of the Princeton & Slavery Project and the Digital Projects Manager at the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum. She received her PhD in history from Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Quotations
Introduction
Chapter 1: This Happy, Free, and Flourishing Country
Chapter 2: The Strangest Will He Ever Knew a Sensible Man to Make
Chapter 3: Where Shall the Free Negro Go?
Chapter 4: I Ain't Satisfied Here At All
Chapter 5: Some One of Us Will Have It Good
Chapter 6: Who Hasn't Yearned To Be Home?
Epilogue: So Much for Freedom
Note on Writing
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index