Family or freedom [electronic resource] : people of color in the antebellum South / Emily West.
Material type: TextSeries: New directions in southern history | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)ISBN:- 9780813140858
- 9780813136936
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Free blacks -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Free blacks -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Free blacks -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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- E449 .W512 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Presumed enslaved : free people of color and the law in the Southern States -- Free people of color and residency requests -- "Traditional" motivations and white perspectives on voluntary enslavement -- Free people of color and the enslaved -- Expulsion, enslavement, and ties across the color line.
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