| Author | Horton, James Oliver.
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| Title | In hope of liberty : culture, community, and protest among northern free Blacks, 1700-1860 / James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton.
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| Published | New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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| Description | xii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-19-504732-X (acid-free paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-323) and index.
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| Formatted Note | 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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| Subjects | African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
Free African Americans -- History.
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| Other Authors | Horton, Lois E.
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| LC Card Number | 95-46427 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 185 H823
mq126074: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 69753] |
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