Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South

by Emily West

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 the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081313692X
• ISBN13: 9780813136929
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"