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partners in their marriages. These small groups of blacks were generally descended from French and
Spanish mixed marriages. Under the French, the women in these marriages had the same rights as white women and could hold property. These black women hoped to remain financially independent both for themselves and for the sake of protecting their children from Missouri's restrictive laws. This level of black female agency also made female-centered households attractive to widows. The traditional idea of husband dominating wife could not be the central idea in these elite marriages because of women's importance in bringing income into the family. Women had to exercise caution in married relationships, however, as marrying a black man who was still a slave would make the free black woman legally responsible for his behavior, good or bad.
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Negroes moving to cities, such as Richmond and Petersburg of Virginia, Raleigh and Wilmington of North Carolina, Charleston of South Carolina, and Savannah (and later Atlanta) of Georgia. The South overall developed two distinct groups of free Negroes. Those in the Upper South were more numerous: the 1860 census showed only 144 free Negroes in Arkansas, 773 in Mississippi, and 932 in Florida, while in Maryland there were 83,942; in Virginia, 58,042; in North Carolina, 30,463; and in Louisiana, 18,647. Free blacks in the Lower South were more urban, educated, wealthier, and were generally of mixed race with white fathers, compared to free blacks in the Upper South. Despite these differences, the Southern states passed similar laws to regulate black life, borrowing from one another.
1685:, a considerable number of colonists felt that the time had come to end slavery and give the free Negroes some fruits of liberty. This sentiment, added to economic considerations, led to the immediate or gradual abolition of slavery in six northern states, while there was a swelling flood of private manumissions in the South. Little actual gain was made by the free Negro even in this period, and by the turn of the century, the downward trend had begun again. Thereafter the only important change in that trend before the Civil War was that after 1831 the decline in the status of the free Negro became more precipitate."
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Negroes were perceived as "an evil of no ordinary magnitude," undermining the system of slavery. Slaves had to be shown that there was no advantage in being free; thus, free
Negroes became victims of the slaveholders' fears. The legislation became more forceful; the free Negro had to accept his new role or leave the state. In Florida, for example, the legislation of 1827 and 1828 prohibited them from joining public gatherings and "giving seditious speeches", and laws of 1825, 1828, and 1833 ended their right to carry firearms. They were barred from jury service and from testifying against whites. To
771:, who promised freedom to any slave who fought on the side of the British during the war. Black people also fought on the American side, hoping to gain benefits of citizenship later on. During the Civil War, free blacks fought on both the Confederate and Union sides. Southern free Black people who fought on the Confederate side were hoping to gain a greater degree of tolerance and acceptance among their white neighbors. The hope of equality through the military was realized over time, such as with the equalization of pay for Black and white soldiers a month before the end of the Civil War.
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whose county they resided. The Negro, when registering, had to give his name, age, color, sex, and occupation and had to pay one dollar to register ... All
Negroes over twelve years of age had to have a guardian approved by the probate judge ... The guardian could be sued for any crime committed by the Negro; the Negro could not be sued. Under the new law, any free Negro or mulatto who did not register with the nearest probate judge was classified as a slave and became the lawful property of any white person who claimed possession."
2037:(1965), p. 19. "Quite plainly the free Negro could not escape contamination from the concept of racial inferiority, and the Negro servant's descent into slavery was paralleled by the free Negro's loss of social and political status. When the black race came to be identified with slavery, the fortunes of the free Negro became indissolubly linked with the fortunes of the slaves. When the Negro slave came to be regarded as some sort of sub-human, the concept applied with equal force to Negroes who were free."
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1714:(1965), p. 16. "Symptomatic of the changing public attitude was the passage of a law in 1793 forbidding the migration of free Negroes into Virginia, and another, in 1806, which provided that every Negro freed thereafter must leave the state within twelve months unless granted special permission to remain. All of the other slaveholding states enacted some such laws; they varied in severity but not in substance."
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seemingly allowed the elite class to exploit the slave trade without any hint that he might be planning any sort of divine retribution. In fact, the very opposite had happened and slaveholders were seemingly rewarded with great material wealth. The judiciary confirmed this subordinate status even when explicitly racialized laws were not in place. A South
Carolina judge editorialized in an 1832 case:
1837:(1965), p. 13. "When the Civil War began, there were in the slaveholding states roughly a quarter of a million free Negroes living precariously in the shadow of slavery. Though they constituted a relatively small segment of the total population, they were of sufficient social importance to have occasioned the enactment of a great many laws which severely discriminated against them."
550:. This additional counting of the slave population resulted in those states having political power in excess of the white voting population. The South dominated the national government and the presidency for years. Congress adopted legislation that favored slaveholders, such as permitting slavery in territories as the nation began to expand to the West. The
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South, as cities gave free blacks a wider range of economic and social opportunities. Most southern cities had independently black-run churches as well as secret schools for educational advancement. Northern cities also gave blacks better opportunities. For example, free
Negroes who lived in Boston generally had more access to formal education.
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being cooks, cleaning women, seamstresses, and child-nurturers. Despite this, in certain areas, free Black women could become prominent members of the free Black community, running households and constituting a significant portion of the free Black paid labor force. One of the most highly skilled professions for a woman was teaching.
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free black person still present by 1860; although it was not enforced, it succeeded in reducing
Arkansas's population of free blacks to below that of any other slave state. A number of Northern states also restricted the migration of free blacks, with the result that emancipated blacks had difficulty finding places to legally settle.
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blacks in the South shrank as a significant portion of the free black population migrated northward. Some of the more prominent and talented free black figures moved to the North for its opportunities, draining the South of potential free black leaders. Some returned after the Civil War to participate in the
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African American families in colonial North Carolina and Virginia became landowners and some also became slave owners. In some cases, they purchased members of their own families to protect them until they could set them free. In other cases, they participated in the full slave economy. For
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Free Black males enjoyed wider employment opportunities than free Black females, who were largely confined to domestic occupations. While free Black boys could become apprentices to carpenters, coopers, barbers, and blacksmiths, girls' options were much more limited, confined to domestic work such as
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Free Black people could not enter many professional occupations, such as medicine and law, because they were barred from the necessary education. This was also true of occupations that required firearm possession, elective office, or a liquor license. Many of these careers also required large capital
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Thirteen Colonies than in Latin America, the Caribbean or Brazil. This, combined with a very high birth rate, meant that the number of slaves grew rapidly, as the number of births exceeded the number of deaths, reaching nearly 4 million by the time
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brought the first legal test of the constitutionality of slavery in
Massachusetts after the American Revolution, asserting that the state's new constitution and its assertions of men's equality under the law meant that slavery could not exist. As a landowner and taxpayer, she is considered to be one
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was proposed between northern states which only wanted to count free blacks in congressional apportionment (ignoring slave populations), and slave states which wanted full counting of the slave population. The compromise counted slave populations on the ratio of three-fifths, while free blacks were
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rallied many black Americans toward the revolutionary cause and their own hopes of emancipation; both enslaved and free black men fought in the Revolution on both sides. In the North, slaves ran away from their owners in the confusion of war, while in the South, some slaves declared themselves free
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gradually also began to allow blacks to fight, giving them promises of freedom in return for their service. Tens of thousands of slaves escaped from plantations or from other venues during the war, especially in the South. Some joined British lines or disappeared in the disruption of war. After the
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The lives of free blacks varied depending on their location within the United States. There was a significant free-black bias towards cities, as many rural free blacks migrated to cities over time, both in the North and the South. Cities were the chief destinations for migrating free blacks in the
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Southern states also passed harsh laws regulating the conduct of free blacks, in several cases banning them from entering or settling in the state. In Mississippi, a free Negro could be sold into slavery after spending ten days in state. Arkansas passed a law in 1859 that would have enslaved every
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of the Tennessee Supreme Court: "All the slaveholding states, it is believed, as well as many non-slaveholding, like ourselves have adopted the policy of exclusion. The consequence is the free negro cannot find a home that promises even safety in the United States and assuredly none that promises
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The 1830s saw a significant effort by white communities to oppose Black people's education, coinciding with the emergence of public schooling in northern American society. Public schooling and citizenship were linked together, and because of the ambiguity that surrounded Black citizenship status,
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of 1775β1783, few slaves were manumitted; on the eve of the American Revolution, there was an estimated 30,000 free African Americans in Colonial America which accounts for about 5% of the total African American population with most of free African Americans being mixed race. Since the portion of
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Within free black marriages, many women were able to participate more equally in their relationships than elite white women. This potential for equality in marriage can be seen through the example of the "colored aristocracy" of the small black elite in St. Louis, where women were often economic
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In Florida, legislation passed in 1847 required all free Negroes to have a white person as a legal guardian; in 1855, an act was passed which prevented free Negroes from entering the state. "In 1861, an act was passed requiring all free Negroes in Florida to register with the judge of probate in
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The above numbers reflect a deliberate attempt to expel free Negroes from the deep South. "Southerners came to believe that the only successful means of removing the threat of free Negroes was to expel them from the southern states or to change their status from free persons to ... slaves." Free
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Even with the presence of significant free black populations in the South, free blacks often migrated to Northern states. While this presented some problems, free blacks found more opportunities in the North overall. During the nineteenth century, the number and proportion of population of free
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began sending petitions to northern legislatures demanding freedom; by 1800, all of the northern states had abolished slavery or set measures in place to gradually reduce it. While free, blacks often had to struggle with reduced civil rights, such as restrictions on voting, as well as racism,
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The economic, military, and scientific superiority of the elite class justified slavery through the idea of "Divine Providence" (i.e., the idea that "Things were as they were because God willed them to be that way"). Black people were thus perceived as members of an inferior race, as God had
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made their voices heard through public lecturing. The National Negro Convention encouraged a boycott of slave-produced goods. These efforts were met with resistance, however, as the early 19th century brought renewed anti-black sentiment after the spirit of the Revolution began to die down.
677:, Florida's most populous and wealthiest county (this wealth was due to the higher number of slaves in Leon County than any other county in Florida, who in the 1860 census constituted 73% of its population), petitioned the General Assembly to have all free Negroes removed from the state.
311:. Other colonies followed suit. This meant that children of slave mothers in colonial America were also slaves, regardless of their fathers' ethnicity. In some cases, this could result in a person's being legally white under Virginia law of the time, although born into slavery.
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in an attempt to maintain control over black labor. The Mississippi Black Code (the first to pass and the best known) distinguished between "free negroes" (referring to those who had been free before the war, in some places called "Old Issues"), (newly free) "freedmen", and
1865:(1965), pp. 13β14. "In fact, discriminatory laws were remarkably uniform, in spite of the very great difference in the numbers of free Negroes. But this difference in the numbers of free Negroes was certainly not reflected in the laws of these two groups of states."
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especially, inspired by the war's ideals, manumitted their slaves. From 1790 to 1810, the proportion of free blacks in the Upper South rose from less than 1% to overall, and nationally, the proportion of free blacks among blacks rose to 13%. The spread of
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were often based on technicalities, such as the lack of legal slave documents or mixed-race ancestry that exempted some from slave service. In New England in 1716, Joan Jackson became the first slave woman to win her freedom in a New England court.
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abolished slavery in 1777, while it was still independent, and when it joined the United States as the 14th state in 1791 it was the first state to have done so. All the other Northern states abolished slavery between 1780 and 1804, leaving the
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In New England, slave women went to court to gain their freedom while free black women went to court to hold on to theirs; the New England legal system was unique in its accessibility to free blacks and the availability of attorneys. Women's
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children were born to free women, they were free. Through use of court documents, deeds, wills, and other records, Heinegg traced such families as the ancestors of nearly 80 percent of the free Black people recorded in the censuses of the
414:). A total of more than 29,000 Loyalist refugees eventually departed from New York City alone. The British evacuated thousands of other slaves when they left Southern ports, resettling many in the Caribbean and others in England.
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was ratified. The free black population increased from 8% to 13.5% from 1790 to 1810; most of whom lived in the Mid-Atlantic States, New England, and the Upper South, where most of the slave population lived at the time.
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not subject to the compromise and counted as one full citizen for representation. Due to this compromise Southern states could count three-fifths of their slave populations toward the state populations for purposes of
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of the late 18th century descended from unions between white women (whether indentured servants or free) and African men (whether indentured servant, free, or enslaved). These relationships took place mostly among the
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and/or their children. Slaves were sometimes allowed to buy their freedom; they might be permitted to save money from fees paid when they were "hired out" to work for other parties. In the mid-to-late 18th century,
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1730β1755) encouraged slave owners to free their slaves, in their belief that all men were equal before God. They converted many slaves to Christianity and approved black leaders as preachers; blacks developed
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and her family presents a prime example of the danger to free blacks from the ambiguous legal definitions of their status. The Morgan family's legal entanglement led to the case of
673:(free) a slave, a master had to pay a tax of $ 200 each and had to post a bond guaranteeing that the free Negro would leave the state within 30 days. Eventually, some citizens of
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and Sojourner Truth gained the support of white abolitionists to purchase their freedom, to avoid being captured and returned to the South and slavery. In 1857, the ruling of
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slaves for various reasons: to reward long years of service, because heirs did not want to take on slaves, or to free slave
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The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era
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Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida 1821β1860
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989:: healer, midwife and nurse who sued for her freedom in 1781
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Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community
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Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South
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Free People of Color: Inside the African-American Community
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Free People of Color: Inside the African-American Community
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Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution
2005:. Vol. 8, no. 3. March 1, 1860. pp. 50β51.
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The Founders and Slavery:Little Ventured, Little Gained
1521:. Wheeling, Illinois: Harland Davidson. p. 126.
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and abandoned their slave work to join the British.
435:many slaves escaped to freedom in the North and in
394:in November 1783, they transported more than 3,000
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2458:In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women's History
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2432:Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America
1935:. Exploring Florida (University of South Florida)
1620:1860 Census totals of the free colored population
1150:: fugitive slave, reformer, writer, and statesman
599:allowed black men to enroll in military service.
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3905:Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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3950:Black players in professional American football
3900:Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
2774:The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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1186:: nurse, midwife, entrepreneur, philanthropist
1126:: civil rights activist in 1860s San Francisco
1120:: fugitive slave, author, playwright, activist
1075:: first published African-American female poet
1023:: first ordained black Episcopal priest; saint
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2289:Franklin, John Hope; Moss, Alfred A. (1994).
1232:: educator, college administrator, and author
3663:Historically black colleges and universities
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2002:Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend
183:, and in the rice and indigo plantations of
2584:Pleck, Elizabeth; Adams, Catherine (2010).
2569:Pleck, Elizabeth; Adams, Catherine (2010).
2554:Pleck, Elizabeth; Adams, Catherine (2010).
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1029:: Baptist minister, businessman, educator
920:Learn how and when to remove this message
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1011:: first black man granted a U.S. patent
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4779:Topics related to the African diaspora
3885:National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
2722:Horton, James O., and Lois E. Horton.
2719:(Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993).
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301:adopted the principle in slave law of
207:Slaves imported into Colonial America
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352:evangelists during the period of the
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2764:. University of Alabama Press, 1965.
2691:(University of Chicago Press, 1981).
2601:"Tribute to Chicago Icon and Enigma"
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1493:, Generations Publishing, 1995β2005.
1371:. Slavery in America. Archived from
1271:: abolitionist, writer, and activist
854:adding citations to reliable sources
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167:slaves who escaped from their owners
4835:Social history of the United States
4244:African-American Vernacular English
2745:American Nineteenth Century History
2726:(New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979).
472:segregation, or physical violence.
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4162:U.S. cities with large populations
3865:Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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1506:. Issues & Views. Spring 1998.
1252:John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
966:African Methodist Episcopal Church
481:of the South as defenders of the "
443:, staffed by former slaves and by
109:for land in the new colony in the
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3035:Inauguration of Barack Obama 2013
3031:Inauguration of Barack Obama 2009
2838:African American founding fathers
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2239:The Filson Club History Quarterly
2130:The Filson Club History Quarterly
2066:The Filson Club History Quarterly
1784:Frazier, Edward Franklin (1968).
1394:Frazier, Edward Franklin (1968).
1352:Frazier, Edward Franklin (1968).
439:by running away, assisted by the
50:British colonies in North America
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3915:United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
3060:Nadir of American race relations
1997:"Monthly Summary. United States"
1727:(1965), p. 16β17. Wilson quotes
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1156:: property owner and businessman
1001:one of the first to be freed in
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497:of 1787, passed just before the
467:In the 1770s, blacks throughout
363:their own strain of Christianity
2921:Civil rights movement 1954β1968
2911:Civil rights movement 1865β1896
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2916:Civil right movement 1896β1954
2703:Free Negroes in North Carolina
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1430:Dictionary of American Slavery
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4090:Cherokee freedmen controversy
3066:The Negro Motorist Green Book
2684:(1982) 21#3 pp. 294β325.
2634:. A. T. Andreas. Front matter
2360:Horton, James Oliver (1993).
2337:Horton, James Oliver (1993).
1742:Richard Zuczek., ed. (2006).
1597:Horton, James Oliver (2001).
1542:Horton, James Oliver (2001).
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1083:American Anti-Slavery Society
701:Opportunities for advancement
688:Migration from South to North
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2762:The Black Codes of the South
2530:10.1080/0144039x.2011.606628
1566:American Slavery, 1619β1865,
1367:Seybert, Tony (4 Aug 2004).
1329:Slavery in the United States
1210:: writer of slave narrative
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1039:Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
937:Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
608:United States Colored Troops
379:proclamation of Lord Dunmore
58:abolition of slavery in 1865
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3960:Black players in ice hockey
3895:National Urban League (NUL)
3721:American Society of Muslims
2959:Selma to Montgomery marches
2879:Brown v. Board of Education
2760:Wilson, Theodore Brantner.
2755:Journal of Southern History
2747:(2011), 12#1 pp. 1β23.
2740:(1982) 8#2 pp. 271β92.
2456:Corbett, Katherine (1999).
1903:Schafer, Daniel L. (2003).
1888:Smith, Julia Floyd (1973),
1683:Declaration of Independence
1578:Zilversmit, Arthur (1967).
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602:In January 1863, Lincoln's
544:congressional apportionment
461:Declaration of Independence
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3875:Nashville Student Movement
2886:Children of the plantation
2395:. New Press, The. p.
1748:. Greenwood. p. 154.
1517:Wright, Donald R. (1993).
1314:Antebellum Black community
1081:: minister, co-founder of
1063:led a slave revolt in 1822
1015:Anthony Johnson (colonist)
556:Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
552:Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
535:United States Constitution
392:British evacuated New York
367:American Revolutionary War
335:In addition, slave owners
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1180:: writer and abolitionist
604:Emancipation Proclamation
507:National Negro Convention
445:abolitionist sympathizers
264:1860 United States census
156:emancipation in the 1860s
36:Free woman of color with
4804:United States portal
4239:African-American English
3668:Inventors and scientists
3360:George Washington Carver
2964:Chicago Freedom Movement
2626:Andreas, Alfred Theodore
2259:Slavery: A World History
2256:Meltzer, Milton (1993).
2113:Moss, Hilary J. (2009).
2098:Moss, Hilary J. (2009).
2083:Moss, Hilary J. (2009).
1956:Journal of Negro History
1319:Abyssinian Meeting House
1035:, healer and emancipator
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628:Civil Rights Act of 1866
593:Confiscation Act of 1862
589:Confiscation Act of 1861
554:was strengthened by the
293:associated with African
144:indentured or free women
97:, some Africans came as
19:Not to be confused with
4727:African-American firsts
3776:Back-to-Africa movement
3745:Black Hebrew Israelites
3525:Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
3073:Partus sequitur ventrem
2429:Saxton, Martha (2003).
2297:. McGraw-Hill. p.
1417:excerpt and text search
1291:organizer ("conductor")
1244:: anti-slavery activist
531:Philadelphia Convention
398:and thousands of other
304:partus sequitur ventrem
131:Partus sequitur ventrem
4695:Spingarn Medal winners
4184:States and territories
3955:Black NFL quarterbacks
3455:Martin Luther King Jr.
2987:Dred Scott v. Sandford
2926:Montgomery bus boycott
2383:Horton, James Oliver;
1160:John Carruthers Stanly
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664:Free Negroes unwelcome
569:Dred Scott v. Sandford
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150:children born to free
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4005:Athletic associations
3940:Negro league baseball
3711:African-American Jews
3430:Ketanji Brown Jackson
3395:Henry Highland Garnet
3254:Negro National Anthem
3004:George Floyd protests
2969:Postβcivil rights era
2701:Franklin, John Hope.
2518:Slavery and Abolition
1799:B erlin, Ira (1981).
1786:The Free Negro Family
1396:The Free Negro Family
1354:The Free Negro Family
1166:Henry Highland Garnet
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791:Prigg v. Pennsylvania
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3738:Azusa Street Revival
3610:Booker T. Washington
3134:Underground Railroad
2999:Free people of color
2853:Atlantic slave trade
2658:www.docsouth.unc.edu
2019:Berlin, Ira (1981).
1847:Berlin, Ira (1981).
1814:Berlin, Ira (1981).
1769:Berlin, Ira (1981).
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1324:Free people of color
1225:Charles Lenox Remond
1213:Twelve Years a Slave
970:Free African Society
850:improve this section
818:Notable free persons
726:Louisville, Kentucky
641:Regional differences
632:Fourteenth Amendment
615:Thirteenth Amendment
487:gradual emancipation
483:peculiar institution
441:Underground Railroad
201:Slave Trade Act 1807
82:free people of color
25:Free people of color
4607:Trinidad and Tobago
4222:Black American Sign
4049:By African descent
4043:Ethnic subdivisions
4030:Southwestern (SWAC)
3945:Baseball color line
3860:Black Panther Party
3764:Political movements
3681:in computer science
3340:Carol Moseley Braun
3129:Tulsa race massacre
3122:Treatment of slaves
2954:March on Washington
2949:Birmingham movement
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1658:Painter, Nell Irvin
1289:Underground Railway
1219:Sarah Parker Remond
1196:William Cooper Nell
1118:William Wells Brown
1003:St. Louis, Missouri
718:Sarah Parker Remond
646:Migration to cities
533:which produced the
495:Northwest Ordinance
491:Northwest Territory
457:American Revolution
406:and in what became
332:from 1790 to 1810.
316:American Revolution
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4705:US representatives
4700:US cabinet members
4592:Dominican Republic
4179:Metropolitan areas
4020:Mid-Eastern (MEAC)
3845:Civic and economic
3823:Self-determination
3644:Education, science
3565:Fred Shuttlesworth
3545:A. Philip Randolph
3450:Coretta Scott King
3375:Frederick Douglass
3202:Harlem Renaissance
3107:Separate but equal
3097:Reconstruction era
3085:Plessy v. Ferguson
2976:Cornerstone Speech
2890:Civil Rights Acts
2873:Black Lives Matter
2848:American Civil War
2694:Diemer, Andrew K.
2687:Curry, Leonard P.
1279:Juliette Toussaint
1148:Frederick Douglass
1124:Charlotte L. Brown
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1079:Theodore S. Wright
1027:John Berry Meachum
1009:Thomas L. Jennings
956:Born prior to 1800
953:
949:History of Chicago
760:that included 100
746:literary societies
695:Reconstruction Era
635:Citizenship Clause
630:, followed by the
585:American Civil War
564:Frederick Douglass
560:Compromise of 1850
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400:American Loyalists
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4107:Black Southerners
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3460:Bernard Lafayette
3055:Million Man March
2812:African Americans
2715:Horton, James O.
2435:. Hill and Wang.
2308:978-0-679-43087-2
1334:Slavery in Canada
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987:Elizabeth Freeman
975:Benjamin Banneker
941:Mississippi River
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548:electoral college
499:U.S. Constitution
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3410:Fannie Lou Hamer
3380:W. E. B. Du Bois
3370:Claudette Colvin
3365:Shirley Chisholm
3182:Family structure
3050:Military history
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1073:Phillis Wheatley
999:Jeanette Forchet
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4749:Historic places
4742:US state firsts
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4200:
4172:2010 majorities
4167:2000 majorities
4138:
4085:Black Seminoles
4034:
4025:Southern (SIAC)
4008:
4007:and conferences
4006:
3999:
3995:Serena Williams
3990:Jackie Robinson
3924:
3848:
3846:
3839:
3759:
3726:Nation of Islam
3697:
3645:
3639:
3580:Sojourner Truth
3570:Clarence Thomas
3535:Gabriel Prosser
3435:Michael Jackson
3310:Crispus Attucks
3300:Ralph Abernathy
3288:
3244:Musical theater
3143:
3009:Great Migration
2981:COVID-19 impact
2939:Sit-in movement
2814:
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2670:
2668:Further reading
2665:
2652:
2651:
2647:
2637:
2635:
2623:
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2609:
2607:
2597:
2593:
2586:Love of Freedom
2582:
2578:
2571:Love of Freedom
2567:
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2556:Love of Freedom
2552:
2545:
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2485:10.2307/3177563
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1098:Solomon Northup
1091:
1055:Sojourner Truth
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515:Sojourner Truth
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402:to resettle in
396:Black Loyalists
152:Native American
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3750:Black theology
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3691:in STEM fields
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3585:Harriet Tubman
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3515:Michelle Obama
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3445:Barbara Jordan
3442:
3440:Harriet Jacobs
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3293:Notable people
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2868:Black genocide
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2588:. p. 129.
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2573:. p. 142.
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2558:. p. 127.
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2524:(3): 360β362.
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2008:
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1839:
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1818:. p. 174.
1806:
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1773:. p. 173.
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1699:Paul Finkelman
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1292:
1285:Harriet Tubman
1282:
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1257:Michael Shiner
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1238:: abolitionist
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1227:
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1205:
1202:William Nesbit
1199:
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1178:Harriet Jacobs
1175:
1172:Cynthia Hesdra
1169:
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4272:By state/city
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4150:Neighborhoods
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4080:Black Indians
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3659:
3658:Black schools
3656:
3654:
3653:Black studies
3651:
3650:
3648:
3642:
3636:
3635:Whitney Young
3633:
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3965:Muhammad Ali
3798:Conservatism
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3630:Andrew Young
3615:Ida B. Wells
3605:David Walker
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1250:: killed in
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1198:: journalist
1190:Mary Meachum
1067:David Walker
1005:in the 1700s
981:James Derham
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4294:Los Angeles
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3970:Arthur Ashe
3828:Nationalism
3818:Raised fist
3781:Black power
3686:in medicine
3620:Roy Wilkins
3575:Emmett Till
3560:Al Sharpton
3325:Julian Bond
3320:James Bevel
3284:Upper class
3274:Stereotypes
3167:Black mecca
3079:Plantations
2858:Black Codes
2638:January 25,
2048:Black Codes
2035:Black Codes
1939:October 27,
1863:Black Codes
1835:Black Codes
1729:John Catron
1725:Black Codes
1712:Black Codes
1679:Black Codes
1605:. pp.
1550:. pp.
1303:: architect
1301:Horace King
1184:Biddy Mason
993:Prince Hall
945:New Orleans
675:Leon County
619:Black Codes
597:Militia Act
469:New England
420:Upper South
404:Nova Scotia
330:Upper South
287:West Indies
154:women (the
56:before the
52:and in the
42:New Orleans
4819:Categories
4655:Astronauts
4445:New Jersey
4289:California
3793:Capitalism
3590:Nat Turner
3520:Rosa Parks
3505:Diane Nash
3475:John Lewis
3264:Newspapers
3234:Literature
3219:Juneteenth
3172:Businesses
3026:Exodusters
2994:Free Negro
2610:August 25,
2479:(2): 283.
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2275:2007-10-16
2262:. DaCapo.
2200:(2): 274.
1697:, p. 427,
1409:Betty Wood
1340:References
1297:: novelist
1130:Thomas Day
1102:free state
1049:Lucy Terry
1045:and trader
1033:Jane Minor
880:newspapers
539:compromise
493:under the
429:Deep South
341:concubines
337:manumitted
325:mixed-race
309:common law
297:. In 1663
244:1771β1780
236:1761β1770
228:1701β1760
220:1620β1700
148:mixed-race
107:headrights
88:Background
66:free Black
62:free Negro
4769:Monuments
4645:Activists
4497:Tennessee
4417:Michigan
4401:Baltimore
4391:Louisiana
4384:Lexington
4367:Davenport
4306:Cleveland
4205:Languages
4134:Melungeon
4112:Blaxicans
3980:Joe Louis
3835:Socialism
3771:Anarchism
3500:Bob Moses
3485:Malcolm X
3405:Fred Gray
3269:Soul food
3207:New Negro
3192:Folktales
3102:Redlining
2538:143137075
1984:149519589
1732:comfort."
1622:, p. 595.
1259:: diarist
1110:kidnapped
1089:1800β1865
837:does not
812:Coverture
758:Louisiana
742:New Haven
734:Baltimore
624:mulattoes
346:Methodist
295:ethnicity
193:Caribbean
4792:Category
4583:America
4549:Diaspora
4534:Virginia
4467:Oklahoma
4450:New York
4433:Nebraska
4396:Maryland
4379:Kentucky
4345:Illinois
4284:Arkansas
4189:Illinois
4127:of color
3813:Populism
3786:Movement
3703:Religion
3045:Lynching
2828:Timeline
2628:(1884).
2387:(2006).
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2046:Wilson,
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1861:Wilson,
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1723:Wilson,
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1677:Wilson,
1660:(2007).
1411:(2013).
1308:See also
1108:and was
1106:New York
1051:: author
546:and the
299:Virginia
283:Carolina
279:Virginia
275:Maryland
255:287,000
231:189,000
181:Maryland
177:Virginia
78:freedmen
74:enslaved
38:quadroon
21:Freedman
4720:Writers
4685:Singers
4670:Jurists
4618:Europe
4572:Liberia
4517:Houston
4421:Detroit
4357:Indiana
4350:Chicago
4333:Atlanta
4328:Georgia
4311:Florida
4279:Alabama
4229:English
3803:Leftism
3673:Museums
3224:Kwanzaa
3149:Culture
3117:Slavery
2820:History
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2677:(1974).
2503:3177563
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1476:2652029
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1043:Chicago
951:(1884).
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474:Vermont
427:in the
412:Ontario
350:Baptist
262:of the
247:15,000
239:63,000
223:21,000
215:Number
195:and to
138:mulatto
48:In the
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4650:Actors
4622:France
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4557:Africa
4507:Austin
4472:Oregon
4411:Boston
4374:Kansas
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4258:Gullah
4068:Yoruba
4058:Gullah
3929:Sports
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