Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Hodges examines the experience of slavery and freedom in the rural nor

A richly illustrated, accessibly written book with a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to th

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Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, James Delle presents the fi

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