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Title: Free Black Activism in the Antebellum North

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: In few other realms of historical scholarship have the last three decades witnessed such all-encompassing transformations as in African-American history. The Civil Rights Movement changed the way scholars have written about slavery, but the broad wake created by that revolution in the history of the "peculiar institution" has struck every other facet of African-American history as well. During the 1970s, even as scholars penned now-classic works on the plantation South in the antebellum era, the margins of the institution fell open to detailed investigation. In no instance was this more the case than with the free African Americans who lived in the states outside of the slave South. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s, dozens upon dozens of books and hundreds of journal articles have appeared that seek to understand the significance of those who lived, as Leon Litwack put it, "North of slavery."

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Authors: Rael, Patrick

Periodical (Full): The History Teacher

Issue: 2

Volume: 39

Pages: 215-254

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Race and Ethnicity

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