Family or Freedom : People of Color in the Antebellum South.

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 th...

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Author / Creator: West, Emily.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
Series:New directions in southern history.
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