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Family or Freedom : People of Color in the Antebellum South.
In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2012.
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| Colección: | New directions in southern history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the ""voluntary"" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that some individuals did petition to rescind their freedom. Family or Freedom investigates th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813140858 0813140854 9780813136936 0813136938 |