The free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860
(2000)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2000
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780807866689 (electronic bk.) MWT11719385, 0807866687 (electronic bk.) 11719385
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery
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