Julie Winch

Between Slavery and Freedom

Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the â borderlandsâ 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

• The African American Experience Series
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781442262249
• ISBN-10: 1442262249
• Artikelnr.: 44559086

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
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