Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America from Settlement to the Civil War

by Julie Winch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742551148
• ISBN13: 9780742551145
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"