Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery - Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

Their actions represented early contributions to the long fight for recognition, civil rights, and racial justice that continues today.

About the author

John Garrison Marks works for the American Association for State and Local History and holds a Ph.D. in history from Rice University. He is the coeditor of Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: An Atlantic World Anthology and his work has appeared in Southwestern Historical Quarterly and Atlantic Studies.

Summary

Examines how African-descended individuals built lives of freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centres: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the low country of North America's Atlantic coast.

Product details

• Authors: John Garrison Marks
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781643361222
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-122-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World; Carolina Lowcountry and the At
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous