Imperfect Equality - African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post-Emancipation Maryland

Imperfect Equality explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed in important ways from the slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had a period of access to power; and even prior to legal emancipation, a large free black population resided there. Moreover, the presence of Baltimore, a major city and port, provided abundant evidence with which to compare the rural and the urban experience of black Marylanders. This state study is therefore uniquely revealing of the successes and failures of the post-emancipation period.

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Richard Fuke

Summary

The author of this work explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed from other slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had access to power; and, even before legal emancipation, a large free black population lived there.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Fuke, Richard Fuke, Richard Paul Fuke
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780823219636
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-1963-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 584 g
• Series: Reconstructing America (Paperb; Reconstructing America
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries