Beyond slavery's shadow : free people of color in the South /
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 t...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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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.