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John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did... Read Full Overview

John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, "The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860" was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not... Read Full Overview

John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did... Read Full Overview