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The price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland

Title
The price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland / T. Stephen Whitman.
Author
Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Description
238 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Subject
  • Slavery > Maryland
  • Slavery > Maryland > Baltimore
  • Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Maryland
  • Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Maryland > Baltimore
  • Race relations
  • Slavery
  • Enslaved persons > Emancipation
  • Slavernij
  • Steden
  • Vrijlating
  • Maryland > History
  • Maryland > Race relations
  • Baltimore (Md.) > History
  • Baltimore (Md.) > Race relations
  • Maryland
  • Maryland > Baltimore
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Originally published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1997.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-232) and index.
Contents
Slavery in early national Baltimore and rural Maryland -- Industrial slavery in Baltimore -- The black drive for autonomy and masters' responses -- Manumission and the transformation of slavery -- Free black family strategies for gaining freedom -- Political-economic thought and free blacks.
ISBN
  • 0415926084
  • 9780415926089
LCCN
99045752
OCLC
  • ocm42397409
  • 42397409
  • SCSB-1225896
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library