Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 214
Illustrations: 5 b&w halftones
edited by Angela G. Ray
The inclusion of this book in the Open Carolina collection is made possible by the generous funding of
Northwestern University Department of Communication Studies, Duke University Libraries, and University of South Carolina Libraries
"Free Black Charlestonians in Debate is an insightful case study of elite free Blacks' vibrant yet frustrated intellectual life and quest for learning and respectability in late antebellum slaveholding Charleston."—Bernard E. Powers Jr., Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston and professor emeritus, College of Charleston
"A significant contribution to our understanding of Black freedom in the antebellum South."—John Garrison Marks, American Association of State and Local History, author of Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery
"With remarkable insight and care, Free Black Charlestonians in Debate illuminates a vibrant example of nineteenth-century Black intellectual culture and the joy of thinking and learning together."—Carly S. Woods, University of Maryland, author of Debating Women
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