Black freedom in the age of slavery : race, status, and identity in the urban Americas / John Garrison Marks.

"Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery examines the intersection of race and identity among free people of African descent in the urban Americas during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The manuscript uses the Atlantic port cities of Charleston and Cartagena as illustrative case stud...

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Uniform Title:Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
Main Author: Marks, John Garrison (Author)
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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Physical Description:xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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