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Author Von Daacke, Kirt, 1968-

Title Freedom has a face : race, identity, and community in Jefferson's Virginia / Kirt von Daacke
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
Contents The right hand men of the revolution : Albemarle's free black war veterans -- Children of the revolution : post-war free black families, property, and community -- Good blacks and useful men : reputation and free black mobility -- "I'll show you what a free Negro is" : black-on-white violence in Albemarle -- Bawdy houses and women of ill fame : free black women, prostitution, and family -- An easy morality : community knowledge of interracial sex
Summary This book tells the stories of free blacks who worked hard to carve out comfortable spaces for existence. They were denied full freedom, but they were neither slaves without masters nor anomalies in a society that had room only for black slaves and free white citizens. A typical rural Piedmont county, Albemarle was not a racial utopia. Rather, it was a tight-knit community in which face-to-face interactions determined social status and reputation. A steep social hierarchy allowed substantial inequalities to persist, but it was nonetheless an intimately interracial society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Free African Americans
Free African Americans -- Social conditions
Race relations
SUBJECT Albemarle County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century
Albemarle County (Va.) -- Race relations
Subject Virginia -- Albemarle County
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813933108
0813933102
1283705532
9781283705530