Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860Baltimore'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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... South has offered the foundation for much of the modern canon of African American historical literature . Although such revisionist historians as Kenneth Stampp and Stanley Elkins portrayed black people prior to the Civil War as a ...
... South has offered the foundation for much of the modern canon of African American historical literature . Although such revisionist historians as Kenneth Stampp and Stanley Elkins portrayed black people prior to the Civil War as a ...
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... South , but they offer less specificity on regional or even state charac- teristics . A number of dated works ( several unpublished , written as disser- tations ) have treated free Negroes in individual southern states , but many of ...
... South , but they offer less specificity on regional or even state charac- teristics . A number of dated works ( several unpublished , written as disser- tations ) have treated free Negroes in individual southern states , but many of ...
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... South . Through its benev- olent associations , fraternal organizations , churches , schools , and other social institutions , the black community actively participated in defining its race relations with whites of the same economic ...
... South . Through its benev- olent associations , fraternal organizations , churches , schools , and other social institutions , the black community actively participated in defining its race relations with whites of the same economic ...
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... South that reflected both southern and northern urban black experiences . In this anomalous con- fluence Baltimore's African American experience was unique . A city through which North and South reached each other , a notorious entrepĂ´t ...
... South that reflected both southern and northern urban black experiences . In this anomalous con- fluence Baltimore's African American experience was unique . A city through which North and South reached each other , a notorious entrepĂ´t ...
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Contents
Slavery and the Growth of Baltimore | 7 |
The Roots of QuasiFreedom | 30 |
The Urban Melange | 57 |
The Contours of QuasiFreedom | 83 |
A Community of Commitment ca 182060 | 115 |
Climbing Jacobs Ladder | 117 |
The Maturation of a Black Community | 145 |
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