John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.
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"A well-balanced and objective study of a subject that is often distorted with prejudice."
-- Political Science Quarterly
John Hope Franklin's classic study of the African American experience in North Carolina.
"An admirable piece of work. . . . This book gives a fairly complete picture of the plight of the North Carolina free people of color."
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Commonwealth
-- Political Science Quarterly
John Hope Franklin's classic study of the African American experience in North Carolina.
"An admirable piece of work. . . . This book gives a fairly complete picture of the plight of the North Carolina free people of color."
—
Commonwealth
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John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) was James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus at Duke University. His many books include Racial Equality in America and From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans.
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MORE THAN a quarter of a century has elapsed since the appearance of John H. Russell's Free Negro in Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North Carolina, General Assembly, Raleigh Register, Craven County, Supreme Court, United States, Beaufort County, New Bern, South Carolina, African Repository, State Records, John Chavis, New York, American Colonization Society, Fayetteville Observer, Wake County, Colonial Records, North Carolinians, Manumission Society, New Hanover, Greensborough Patriot, Guilford County, Thomas Day, Van Buren, David Walker New!
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MORE THAN a quarter of a century has elapsed since the appearance of John H. Russell's Free Negro in Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unpublished population schedules, legislative papers, free negroes, seditious publications, auxiliary societies, colonization movement, eighth census Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, General Assembly, Raleigh Register, Craven County, Supreme Court, United States, Beaufort County, New Bern, South Carolina, African Repository, State Records, John Chavis, New York, American Colonization Society, Fayetteville Observer, Wake County, Colonial Records, North Carolinians, Manumission Society, New Hanover, Greensborough Patriot, Guilford County, Thomas Day, Van Buren, David Walker New!
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- American Revolution (Wars That Changed the World) by Philip Clark on page 10, page 102, and Back Matter
- North Carolina Wills And Inventories by J. Bryan Grimes on page 20, page 122, and Back Matter
- The Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson on page 166, page 168, and Back Matter
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 3, and page 222
- Slaveholding in North Carolina: An Economic View by Rosser Howard Taylor on page 9, and Back Matter
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- The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color by Gary B. Mills on 7 pages
- Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (Gender and American Culture) by Victoria E. Bynum on 6 pages
- Neither Slave nor Free: The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) by David W. Cohen on 5 pages
- Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (Women in American History) by Laura F. Edwards on 4 pages
- Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series) by Robert C. Kenzer on 4 pages
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