Race and liberty in the new nation
Subtitle: emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion
By: Eva Sheppard Wolf
Edition: Louisiana pbk. ed.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780807134177
Subjects: Race relations; Slaves; Emancipation; African Americans; Slavery; History
Notes: Originally published in hardback: c2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Are we willing to grant this liberty to all men?" : ambivalence in the revolutionary era; title: "The liberty of emancipating their slaves" : the practice of manumission, 1782-1806; title: "Deep-rooted prejudices" : race and the problem of emancipation, 1782-1806; title: "White Negroes" and "inchoate freedom" : life after manumission; title: A "contest for power" : slavery and emancipation become political issues in the 1820s; title: The "most momentous subject of public interest" : the public debate over slavery and emancipation, 1831-1832; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A : religion of manumitters in deeds of manumission whose religious affiliation could be identified; title: Appendix B : petitions regarding slavery, emancipation, and colonization sent to the House of Delegates in 1831-1832.