Between Slavery And Freedom: Free People Of Color In America From Settlement To The Civil War (The African American Experience Series)

In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores one of the central ironies of racial dynamics in this nation s history from the colonial era to the end of the Civil War. The existence of a class of free people of African descent contradicted the notion that only people of unmixed European ancestry were free and that all black people were and indeed should be held in bondage. The hold of these men and women on freedom, sometimes firm, sometimes tenuous, had profound implications for race relations in America and for the survival of the peculiar institution. 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."

• | Author: Julie Winch, Jacqueline M. Moore
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Feb 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1442262249
• | ISBN-13: 9781442262249