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Free Blacks in Antebellum America

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In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860
James Oliver Horton; Lois E. Horton. Oxford University Press, 1998

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Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North
James Oliver Horton; Lois E. Horton. Holmes & Meier, 1999 (20th edition)

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The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era
Wilma King. University of Missouri Press, 2006

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The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
Suzanne Lebsock. Norton, 1984

Librarian’s tip: Chap. 4 "Free Women of Color"

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Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
Victoria E. Bynum. University of North Carolina Press, 1992

Librarian’s tip: Chap. Five "The Struggle to Survive: The Lives of Slave, Free Black, and Poor White Women during the Civil War"

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I Will Wear No Chain! A Social History of African-American Males
Christopher B. Booker. Praeger, 2000

Librarian’s tip: Chap. 2 "The Context of Black Masculine Development during the Antebellum Era"

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
John Hope Franklin; Loren Schweninger. Oxford University Press, 2000

Librarian’s tip: "Free Black Runaways" begins on p. 189, and "Free Black Owners of Runaways" begins on p. 199

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History of Black Americans: From the Compromise of 1850 to the End of the Civil War
Philip S. Foner. Greenwood Press, 1983

Librarian’s tip: Chap. 2 "Black Reaction to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: Terror in the Black Community"

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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina
Orville Vernon Burton. University of North Carolina Press, 1985

Librarian’s tip: Chap. 5 "The Free Afro-American in Antebellum Edgefield"

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Black Sailors: Afro-American Merchant Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War
Martha S. Putney. Greenwood Press, 1987

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The Negro in Maryland: A Study of the Institution of Slavery
Jeffrey R. Brackett. Negro Universities Press, 1969

Librarian’s tip: Chap. V "The Free Negro"

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