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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Abbreviations xxi
1 "Are we willing to grant this liberty to all men?": Ambivalence in the Revolutionary Era 1
2 "The liberty of Emancipating their Slaves": The Practice of Manumission, 1782-1806 39
3 "Deep-rooted Prejudices": Race and the Problem of Emancipation, 1782-1806 85
4 "White negroes" and "inchoate freedom": Life after Manumission 130
5 A "contest for power": Slavery and Emancipation Become Political Issues in the 1820s 162
6 The "most momentous subject of public interest": The Public Debate over Slavery and Emancipation, 1831-1832 196
Epilogue: Virginia and the Nation 235
Appendix A Religion of Manumitters in Deeds of Manumission Whose Religious Affiliation Could Be Identified 239
Appendix B Petitions Regarding Slavery, Emancipation, and Colonization Sent to the House of Delegates in 1831-1832 242
Bibliography 249
Index 273
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reviewed Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion on September 20, 2012
Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion
This descriptive, detailed history makes for difficult reading at times. I grew up in the segregated South and remember when the three civil rights workers disappeared. Thank goodness things have changed with a long way to go. At any rate, I learned quite a lot from reading Freedom Summer.
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