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Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War (The African American History Series)
Between Slavery and Freedom Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War - The African American History Series Author:Julie Winch Free People of Color explores one of the central ironies of racial dynamics in this nation?s history from the colonial era to the end of the Civil War. The existence of a class of free people of African descent contradicted the notion that only people of unmixed European ancestry were ?free? and that all black people were ? and indeed should be ... more »? held in bondage. The hold of these men and women on freedom, sometimes firm, sometimes tenuous, had profound implications for race relations in America and for the survival of the ?peculiar institution.?« less