Freedom has a face : race, identity, and community in Jefferson's Virginia

Freedom has a face : race, identity, and community in Jefferson's Virginia / Kirt von Daacke.

This book tells the stories of free blacks who worked hard to carve out comfortable spaces for existence. They were denied full freedom, but they were neither slaves without masters nor anomalies in a society that had room only for black slaves and free white citizens. A typical rural Piedmont count...

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Main Author: Von Daacke, Kirt, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Free African Americans > Virginia > Albemarle County > Social conditions > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Virginia > Albemarle County > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Free African Americans
Free African Americans > Social conditions
Race relations
Albemarle County (Va.) > History > 19th century.
Albemarle County (Va.) > Race relations.
Virginia > Albemarle County
History
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