Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860 (Blacks in the New World) Edition Unstated

by Christopher Phillips (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0252066189

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Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community.
He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their
own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery
and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black
people had achieved.

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About the Author

Christopher Phillips, an assistant professor of history at Emporia
State University, Kansas, and visiting assistant professor (1996-97) at
John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, is the author of Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; Edition Unstated (July 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252066189
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252066184
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

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- #1,031 in United States History (Books)
- #1,861 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
- #6,479 in U.S. State & Local History

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Meghan

reverse colorism in Baltimore

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2009

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This is the best book about free African Americans.These are interesting facts from the book.M*lattoes was a term for biracial people,light skin blacks and brown skin blacks.N*gro was a term for dark skin blacks.M*lattoes married m*lattoes and n*groes married n*groes in Baltimore.Both terms are now derogatory.Reverend Daniel Coker (is biracial) was forced to resign because some of the black delegation did not want Rev. Coker to be bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church because he was light skin.

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Antero Pietila

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Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2015

For the umpteenth time I am re-reading Freedom's Port: The African-American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Christopher Phillips's 1997 tour de force should be on everyone's reading list. My particular interest this time is Chapter 4: Climbing Jacob's Ladder. It describes the formative years of leading black churches at the time when the City Hall vicinity was significantly African American. An amazing book.

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