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Between Slavery and Freedom
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Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War
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Artikel-Nr:
9780742551152
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
186
Autor:
Julie Winch
Serie:
The African American Experience Series
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War.
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. However they had navigated their way out of bondage – through flight, through military service, through self-purchase, through the working of the law in different times and in different places, or because they were the offspring of parents who were themselves free – they were determined to enjoy the same rights and liberties that white people enjoyed. In a concise narrative and selected primary documents, noted historian Julie Winch shows the struggle of black people to gain and maintain their liberty and lay claim to freedom in its fullest sense. Refusing to be relegated to the margins of American society and languish in poverty and ignorance, they repeatedly challenged their white neighbors to live up to the promises of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Winch’s accessible, concise, and jargon-free book, including primary sources and the latest scholarship, will benefit undergraduate students of American history and general readers alike by allowing them to judge the evidence for themselves and evaluate the authors’ conclusions.
Timeline
Introduction – On Liberty’s Borderlands
Chapter One – Property or Persons: Black Freedom in Colonial America, 1513-1770
Chapter Two – In Liberty’s Cause: Black Freedom in
Revolutionary America, 1770-1790
Chapter Three – Race, Liberty and Citizenship in the
New Nation, 1790-1820
Chapter Four – “We Will Have Our Rights”: Redefining
Black Freedom, 1820-1850
Chapter Five – “No Rights Which the White Man Was Bound to Respect”:
Black Freedom and Black Citizenship, 1850-1861
Epilogue – Black Freedom, White Freedom
Suggested Readings
Documents
Introduction – On Liberty’s Borderlands
Chapter One – Property or Persons: Black Freedom in Colonial America, 1513-1770
Chapter Two – In Liberty’s Cause: Black Freedom in
Revolutionary America, 1770-1790
Chapter Three – Race, Liberty and Citizenship in the
New Nation, 1790-1820
Chapter Four – “We Will Have Our Rights”: Redefining
Black Freedom, 1820-1850
Chapter Five – “No Rights Which the White Man Was Bound to Respect”:
Black Freedom and Black Citizenship, 1850-1861
Epilogue – Black Freedom, White Freedom
Suggested Readings
Documents