Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South

In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that

Author: Emily West
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 11/01/2012
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780813136929

About the Author

Emily West is lecturer in history at the University of Reading and author of Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina.

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