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  title info:
    title: Beyond slavery's shadow
    sub title: free people of color in the South
  name:
    name part: Milteer, Warren E.
    name part: Jr
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet more than half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In this deeply researched study, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. demonstrates that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the growing influence of white supremacy and proslavery extremism created serious challenges for free persons categorized as 'negroes,' 'mulattoes,' 'mustees,' 'Indians' or simply 'free people of color' in the South. Segregation, exclusion, disfranchisement and discriminatory punishment were ingrained in their collective experiences. Yet, in the face of attempts to deny them the most basic privileges and rights, free people of color defended their families and established organizations and businesses. Free people of color were both privileged and victimized, both celebrated and despised in a region characterized by social inconsistency. Milteer's analysis of the intersections between hierarchies of wealth, gender, and occupation with ideas promoting white supremacy and discrimination reveals a wide range of social interactions and life outcomes for the South's free people of color and helps to explain societal contradictions that continue to appear in the modern United States.
  table of contents: Liberty in the Colonial South -- The Revolution of Freedom -- The Backlash -- Making Freedom Work -- Rebellion and Radicalism -- Resisting Radicalism -- Preserving Freedom in a Divided South.
  note: Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    topic: Free African Americans
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Free African Americans
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: Social conditions
  classification: E185.18 .M55 2021
  classification: 975/.00496073
  identifier: 9781469664385
  identifier: 1469664380
  identifier: 9781469664392
  identifier: 1469664399
  identifier: 9781469664408
  identifier: 9781469664415
  identifier: 2021003644
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210201
    record change date: 20220105160209.0
    record identifier: in00004359272