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Family or Freedom
Emily West
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Description for Family or Freedom
Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 536.
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 the incentives for free African Americans living in ... Read more
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 the incentives for free African Americans living in ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813136929
SKU
V9780813136929
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About Emily West
Emily West is lecturer in history at the University of Reading, UK and author of Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina.
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