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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Phillips, Christopher, 1959 November 1- Freedom's port. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)1262057787 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Phillips |
ISBN: | 0252023153 9780252023156 0252066189 9780252066184 |
OCLC Number: | 35701217 |
Awards: | Winner of Co-winner of the Maryland Historical Society Book Award, 1997. 1997 |
Description: | xiii, 350 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Slavery and the growth of Baltimore -- The roots of quasi-freedom -- The urban mélange -- The contours of quasi-freedom -- Climbing Jacob's ladder -- The maturation of a Black community -- "Cursed with freedom" -- "Freedom shall not perish." |
Series Title: | Blacks in the New World. |
Responsibility: | Christopher Phillips. |
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