Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860University of Illinois Press, 1997 - 350 páginas Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community. He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black people had achieved. |
Contenido
Slavery and the Growth of Baltimore | 7 |
The Roots of QuasiFreedom | 30 |
The Urban Melange | 57 |
The Contours of QuasiFreedom | 83 |
A Community of Commitment ca 182060 | 115 |
Climbing Jacobs Ladder | 117 |
The Maturation of a Black Community | 145 |
Cursed with Freedom | 177 |
Freedom Shall Not Perish | 211 |
Conclusion | 235 |
Notes | 243 |
Bibliography | 299 |
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Términos y frases comunes
African Americans Alley Anglo-African antebellum Balti Baltimore City Baltimore County Baltimore Directory Baltimore Sun Baltimore's black BC Tax BCC Miscellaneous Court Berlin Bethel black Baltimoreans black churches black community Black in Urban Black Property black residents Blacks in Baltimore bondage city's black Coker color Daily Intelligencer decades Douglass early economic Emancipation emigration families Fells Point Frederick Douglass free black population free blacks free Negroes freed Gardner hired History J. M. Wright Jacob James John labor lived male manumission manumitted Maryland Historical Magazine Matchett MdHR Methodist Episcopal Church microfilm reel BCA Middle Ground ministers Miscellaneous Court Papers MSA C1 mulatto Negro in Maryland occupations owners percent Philadelphia plantation planters Population Schedule Property Tax Books racial Record Group Saint-Domingue second quote Sharp Street slaveowners Slavery Slavery and Freedom slaves and free Slaves without Masters social southern state's term tion trade U.S. Census University Press Upper South Urban America William York
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African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the ... Chris Dixon Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |