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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Horton, James Oliver. In hope of liberty. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 (DLC) 95046427 (OCoLC)33404409 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Oliver Horton; Lois E Horton |
ISBN: | 1423760190 9781423760191 1280530200 9781280530203 0195124650 9780195124651 1602563187 9781602563186 |
OCLC Number: | 65185716 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Slavery and slave trading in the colonial north -- Culture, race, and class in the colonial north -- Revolution and the abolition of northern slavery -- A life in freedom : the evolution of family and household -- Coping with urban life : poverty, work, and regional differences -- Sustaining and serving the community : building institutions for social and spiritual welfare -- Culture, politics, and the issue of African-American identity -- Ambivalent identity : colonization and the question of emigration -- The growth of the antebellum antislavery movement -- The widening struggle, growing militancy, and the hope of liberty for all. |
Responsibility: | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton. |
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what makes In Hope of Liberty so stimulating is the juxtaposition of the broad historical sweep with individual experience. * S-M Grant, American Studies, 33:2, 1999. * it is the Horton's ability to pull together such a wide and varied range of individual voices that makes this work so approachable. * S-M Grant, American Studies, 33:2, 1999. * Given the amount of scholarship to-date on the themes of black culture, community and protest, the Hortons have set their sights high in attempting a single-volume study covering all three topics. They have nevertheless succeeded in producing a work of synthesis which is both broad in scope and, most importantly, accessible to a wide readership. * S-M Grant, American Studies, 33:2, 1999. * Read more...


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- African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
- Free African Americans -- History.
- Noirs américains affranchis -- Histoire.
- Noirs américains -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1863.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
- African Americans.
- Free African Americans.
- Soziale Situation
- USA -- Nordstaaten
- Vrijgelaten slaven.
- Liberté -- 18e siècle.
- Liberté -- 19e siècle.
- Noirs américains -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Noirs américains -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
- Geschichte 1700-1860.
- Schwarze.