In hope of liberty : culture, community, and protest among northern free Blacks, 1700-1860

In hope of liberty : culture, community, and protest among northern free Blacks, 1700-1860 / James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton.

Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during...

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Main Author: Horton, James Oliver
Other Authors: Horton, Lois E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
To 1863
African Americans > History > To 1863.
Free African Americans > History.
African Americans
Free African Americans
United States.
History
Online Access:ACLS Humanities E-Book
Table of Contents:
  • Slavery and slave trading in the colonial north
  • Culture, race, and class in the colonial north
  • Revolution and the abolition of northern slavery
  • A life in freedom : the evolution of family and household
  • Coping with urban life : poverty, work, and regional differences
  • Sustaining and serving the community : building institutions for social and spiritual welfare
  • Culture, politics, and the issue of African-American identity
  • Ambivalent identity : colonization and the question of emigration
  • The growth of the antebellum antislavery movement
  • The widening struggle, growing militancy, and the hope of liberty for all.

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