Bibliograph

Complicated lives, free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865, Sherri L. Burr

Type

Label

Complicated lives, free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865, Sherri L. Burr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-183) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Complicated lives

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1107805788

Responsibility statement

Sherri L. Burr

Sub title

free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865

Summary

"This narrative nonfiction book contains stories of people of African origin who were never enslaved, born free, or who obtained liberty through court proceedings in the U.S. They lived in a society that sought to systematically deprive them of liberty and other human rights. This history of Free Blacks in Virginia reveals the human ability to persevere against adverse odds arising from the color of their skin, or their gender, or both. It interweaves legal history with stories of what happened to those African Americans who were free before the Civil War and lived their lives in the shadows of a complicated world"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

African origins -- The voyage -- Virginia -- Property -- Transforming servitude -- Restrictions on population growth and civil liberties -- The Revolutionary War's impact on free Blacks -- Manumissions and status changes -- The anti-slavery slaveholding paradox -- Reversals, registration, kidnappings and social interactions -- The Civil War and Jim Crow -- Epilogue: Story replication

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