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Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865
Hardcover (Paperback)
$29.95
By Melvin Patrick Ely, Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, Stephen Rockenbach, Sabrina G. Watson, Evanda S. Watts-Martinez
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A vital new volume exploring the history of Virginia’s free Black population prior to emancipation.
On the eve of the Civil War, around 60,000 Black men, women, and children lived free in the state of Virginia, often alongside enslaved neighbours. This volume is a history documenting the richness and variety of their lives. Although many stayed in Virginia, living, working, and thriving despite serious threats to their lives, some moved north or, further still, across the Atlantic to Liberia...