Black Townsmen
Subtitle: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 18, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403975768
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Black studies; Slavery & emancipation; Urban communities; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History; History - General History; History: American; Latin America; North America; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Latin America - Central America; United States - Civil War; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); 18th century; African Americans; Baltimore; Free African Americans; Maryland; Slaves
Description: "An innovative study that compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Mariana L.R. Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns. The picture that emerges is one in which slaves and their free descendants are in the foreground of Atlantic urban slavery and freedom."--Jacket