North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States

by Leon F. Litwack

Overview

". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."—John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education

"For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."—C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226485874
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	02/15/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	325
File size:	342 KB

Table of Contents

1. Slavery to Freedom
2. The Federal Government and the Free Negro
3. The Politics of Repression
4. Education: Separate and Unequal
5. The Economics of Repression
6. The Church and the Negro
7. Abolitionism: White and Black
8. The Crisis of the 1850's
Bibliographic Essay
Index