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In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860
In Hope of Liberty Culture Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks 1700-1860 Author:James O. Horton, Lois E. Horton The lives of the first free blacks in America are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade through the American Revolution to, finally, the Civil War. The book brilliantly illuminates the free black community of the antebellum North as it struggled to assimilate while mai... more »ntaining a unique cultural identity, and to work for social action in an atmosphere of racial injustice. As the black community today still struggles with many of the same problems, this insightful history reminds us how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go.« less