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By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black and exercised a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility. Covering the period 1776-1791, this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingue's free black elites on the eve of the colony's transformation into the republic of Haiti.
Free black people --- Haiti --- History
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"Cette étude du statut des esclaves et des affranchis à Bordeaux au XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle montre leur insertion dans l'activité économique, comme dans l'artisanat, le commerce, la marine ou la domesticité. Elle expose leurs conditions sociales et décrit l'ambivalence de ces parcours, entre marginalisation et intégration, exploitation et émancipation"--Publisher's website.
Slaves --- Slaves --- Free Black people --- Free Black people --- History --- Social conditions --- History --- Social conditions
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Land grants. --- Resolutions, Legislative. --- Slavery. --- Free Black people.
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"Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery"--
Slavery --- Free Black people --- Fugitive slaves --- History. --- History
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Land grants. --- Resolutions, Legislative. --- Slavery. --- Free Black people.
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Covering the colonial period to the Civil War and spanning all of the northern United States, this text documents the antebellum northern black experience. It demonstrates the central role of the black community in successfully managing the tensions born of assimilation and cultural difference.
African Americans --- Free African Americans --- Free Afro-Americans --- Free blacks --- History --- History. --- Free Black people
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Colonization. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Slavery. --- Free Black people. --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Emigration Canyon (Utah)
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Colonization. --- Slaves --- Emigration and immigration. --- Federal aid. --- Free Black people. --- Freed persons. --- Emancipation. --- Emigration Canyon (Utah)
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