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Informationen zum Autor Julie Winch is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she specializes in the lives and genealogies of African Americans in the Revolutionary era and the Early American Republic. Klappentext In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the "borderlands" between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. Zusammenfassung In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. Inhaltsverzeichnis TimelineIntroduction - On Liberty's BorderlandsChapter One - Property or Persons: Black Freedom in Colonial America, 1513-1770Chapter Two - In Liberty's Cause: Black Freedom inRevolutionary America, 1770-1790Chapter Three - Race, Liberty and Citizenship in the New Nation, 1790-1820Chapter Four - "We Will Have Our Rights": RedefiningBlack Freedom, 1820-1850Chapter Five - "No Rights Which the White Man Was Bound to Respect":Black Freedom and Black Citizenship, 1850-1861Epilogue - Black Freedom, White FreedomSuggested ReadingsDocuments
