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Slaves without Masters

The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

by Ira Berlin · 1975

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Popularity 13

Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought.

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