Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia - Couverture souple

Milteer Jr., Warren Eugene

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ISBN 10 : 0813954797 ISBN 13 : 9780813954790

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2026

Synopsis

An authoritative study of the free people of color in the largest state of the Old South.

Virginia was the state with the most enslaved people prior to the Civil War. It was also at one time the state with the most resident free people of color—free from the legal disabilities specifically associated with enslavement but still denied many basic civil rights. Written by an award-winning expert on free people of color in the American South, Freedom in the Age of Slavery is the first modern comprehensive history of free Virginians of color from the colonial period through Reconstruction.

Milteer recounts in granular detail the discriminatory policies and resulting hardships that free Virginians of color faced, while also documenting the openings they created for themselves and the successes they enjoyed against overwhelming odds. Throughout, he highlights the commonwealth's significance as the laboratory for legal discrimination throughout the nation, while never losing sight of the ways free people of color seized their opportunities wherever possible and built meaningful lives in the face of massive white resistance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. is Associate Professor of History at George Washington University and the author of Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813954797
• ISBN 13: 9780813954790
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
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