The role of southern free Blacks during the Civil War era
Subtitle: the life of free African Americans in Richmond, Virginia, 1850 to 1876
By: Carey H. Latimore ; with a foreword by Allan O. Kownslar
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781495502781
Subjects: African Americans; History; Freedmen; Race relations; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Other titles: Life of free African Americans in Richmond, Virginia, 1850 to 1876
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A world in transition: freedom and slavery in the Richmond area; title: Using and defying society: free African Americans establish an antebellum community; title: Social control and residency in Richmond, 1850 to 1860; title: Crime, underground networks, and abuse: free-Black life in Civil War Richmond; title: "All that is needed now is the auction block as it used to be": Richmond during Reconstruction; title: Free African Americans community transitions 1865-1877; title: Free African Americans community transitions, 1865-1877.