The price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland /

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A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997.
Temas:
Slavery > Maryland.
Slavery > Maryland > Baltimore.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Maryland.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Maryland > Baltimore.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Maryland.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Maryland > Baltimore.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Vrijlating.
Slavernij.
Maryland > History.
Maryland > Race relations.
Baltimore (Md.) > History.
Baltimore (Md.) > Race relations.
Maryland > Histoire.
Maryland > Relations raciales.
Maryland
Maryland > Baltimore
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Slavery in early national Baltimore and rural Maryland
  • Industrial slavery in Baltimore
  • The black drive for autonomy and masters' responses
  • Manumission and the transformation of slavery
  • Free black family strategies for gaining freedom
  • Political-economic thought and free blacks.

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