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Freedom has a face : race, identity, and community in Jefferson's Virginia /

This book tells the stories of free blacks who worked hard to carve out comfortable spaces for existence. They were denied full freedom, but they were neither slaves without masters nor anomalies in a society that had room only for black slaves and free white citizens. A typical rural Piedmont count...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Von Daacke, Kirt, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The right hand men of the revolution : Albemarle's free black war veterans
  • Children of the revolution : post-war free black families, property, and community
  • Good blacks and useful men : reputation and free black mobility
  • "I'll show you what a free Negro is" : black-on-white violence in Albemarle
  • Bawdy houses and women of ill fame : free black women, prostitution, and family
  • An easy morality : community knowledge of interracial sex.