Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

by John Garrison Marks

Book Overview

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked the Americas together.

In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery John Garrison Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643361236
• ISBN13: 9781643361239
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"