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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Winch, Julie, 1953- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Series:	African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
Subjects:	Free African Americans > History. Free African Americans > Social conditions. Free African Americans > Attitudes > History. United States > Race relations > History.

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.