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Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South

by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr

On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery’s Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from a wide array of sources to demonstrate that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the growing influ

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

376

ISBN

9781469664392