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Freedom's Port
The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860
Christopher Phillips
Paper978-0-252-06618-4
$24.00
| Pub Date: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 376 pages |
Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community.
He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black people had achieved.
CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS, an assistant professor of history at Emporia State University, Kansas, and visiting assistant professor (1996-97) at John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, is the author of Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon.
A volume in the series Blacks in the New World, edited by August Meier and John H. Bracey
Awards:
Co-Winner of the Maryland Historical Society Book Award, 1997.
Subjects:
Southern History & Culture / History, Am.: 19th C. / Black Studies / History, Am.: Civil War
