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In Hope of Liberty

Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

In Hope of Liberty( )
Author: Horton, James O.
Horton, Lois E.
ISBN:978-0-19-535236-8
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
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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. In this marvelously peopled history, James and Lois Horton introduce us to a rich cast of characters. There are familiar historical figures such as Crispus Attucks, a leader of the Boston Massacre and one of the first casualties of the American Revolution;...
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Author Biography
Horton, James O. (Author)
James O. Horton was born on March 28, 1943, in Newark, N.J. He received degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Brandeis University. His career as a historian has included teaching at the University of Michigan and George Washington University, and serving as director of the Afro-American Communities Project at the National Museum of American History.

Horton's scholarly interests include equality in America, especially oppression based on race, gender, and social class. His first book, Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, explored the political and cultural atmosphere for African Americans in pre-Civil War Boston.

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