Happy Dreams of Liberty - An American Family in Slavery and Freedom

A beautifully narrated and rich saga of one family's journey from slavery to freedom--and from the South to the North and West--set against Americans' changing attitudes towards mixed-race people from the late antebellum period to the Jim Crow era.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Note on Quotations


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: This Happy, Free, and Flourishing Country


• Chapter 2: The Strangest Will He Ever Knew a Sensible Man to Make


• Chapter 3: Where Shall the Free Negro Go?


• Chapter 4: I Ain't Satisfied Here At All


• Chapter 5: Some One of Us Will Have It Good


• Chapter 6: Who Hasn't Yearned To Be Home?


• Epilogue: So Much for Freedom


• Note on Writing


• Appendices


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

R. Isabela Morales is the Editor and Project Manager of the Princeton & Slavery Project and the Digital Projects Manager at the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum. She received her PhD in history from Princeton University.

Summary

A beautifully narrated and rich saga of one family's journey from slavery to freedom--and from the South to the North and West--set against Americans' changing attitudes towards mixed-race people from the late antebellum period to the Jim Crow era.

Additional text

Joining a body of work that helps us understand the bittersweet and precarious place mixed-race people have occupied in the United States, Happy Dreams of Liberty is a well-written book that would be useful for anyone writing or teaching about early America, slavery/freedom, western migration, or identity.

Product details

• Authors: Morales , R. Isabela Morales, R. Isabela (Editor and Project Manager Morales
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780197531792
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753179-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LAW / Legal History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Legal History, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Slavery & abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War