Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures)

Author: Jane G. Landers
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: slave, societies, post, cultures, studies, americas, free, odds, blacks
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0714647101
ISBN-13: 9780714647104

Book Description:

The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum


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