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Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party, and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North

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Dr. Christopher Malone has documented with engaging precision a history full of considerable and interesting details. "Between Freedom and Bondage," instructs and pulls out the missing links to help us better understand the backdrop and living currents at work during the process of black emancipation; a time chock full of ideological flux, chaos and drive as early America pushed to define its moral and political self. This book must be required reading for all who study and teach American history.

"A thoughtful examination of the politics of race in the antebellum North." - Alexander Keyssar, author of
"The Right To Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States."

"Between Freedom and Bondage" is a brilliant book that meticulously illustrates "race formation" and the shaping of American politics in the antebellum north. In this book, Dr. Christopher Malone depicts the enfranchisement of blacks due to the changing economic structure of racial conflict, the changing partisan structure of race affiliation and the changing discursive structure of racial coalition using New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts as exemplary case studies. Dr. Malone also includes fascinating quotes and actual zealous arguments from political, social and literary figures of the time throughout his text. "Between Freedom and Bondage" is an exceptional, incredibly well-researched and completely enthralling account of how African Americans gained the right to vote in the United States, and its links to present racial issues that still face us today.