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"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
- George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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ZIN Product Number: 10640785
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 Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN: 1560982861
Release Date: Jan 4, 1993
| |  | | | In Brief
Horton's nine essays explore "the northern African American communities of the United States during the mid-19th century. . . . {Topics include} shades of color; violence, protest, and identity of black manhood; race, occupations, and ethnicity; and economic and social relationships." (Libr J) Index.
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Free People of Color is a path-breaking historical inquiry into the forces that unified and divided free African Americans in the pre-Civil War North, as they dealt with human issues vastly complicated by the racist character of American society. James Oliver Horton explores the social and psychological interior of free African American communities and reveals the diversity and nuances of free black society in such northern cities as Boston, Buffalo, and Washington, D.C. While examining the heated debates within these communities over gender roles, skin color, national identity, leadership styles, and politics, he argues for a complex and pluralistic view of free black society - where disagreement did not preclude cooperation toward common goals, such as ending slavery, obtaining full citizenship, and securing educational and economic opportunities for all African Americans. Horton also discusses relations between blacks and the European immigrants with whom they shared living space and often competed for employment. He finds the association between African Americans and Germans to have been relatively harmonious, particularly in contrast to the violence and acrimony that marked contact between blacks and Irish immigrants. "Black people," observes Horton, "like all Americans, develop communities which reflect the national, regional, and local issues that affect their well-being." The essays in Free People of Color document the complexity of antebellum African American communities and portray their inhabitants as a multifaceted people whose lives were both complicated by restrictive forces and unified by common goals.
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| | | |  | | | | Preface | | | Northern Free Blacks: The Scholarly Discussion | 1 | | Sect. 1 | A Community of Commitment | | | 1 | Blacks in Antebellum Boston: The Migrant and the Community | 25 | | 2 | Generations of Protest: Black Families and Social Reform | 41 | | 3 | Links to Bondage: Free Blacks and the Underground Railroad | 53 | | Sect. 2 | Multiple Identities: Gender, Color, and Nationality | | | 4 | Violence, Protest, and Identity: Black Manhood in Antebellum America | 80 | | 5 | Freedom's Yoke: Gender Conventions among Free Blacks | 98 | | 6 | Shades of Color: The Mulatto in Three Antebellum Northern Communities | 122 | | 7 | Double Consciousness: African American Identity in the Nineteenth Century | 146 | | Sect. 3 | Race and Ethnicity | | | 8 | African Americans and Germans in Mid-nineteenth Century Buffalo | 170 | | 9 | Race, Occupation, and Literacy in Reconstruction Washington, D.C. | 185 | | Afterword | 198 | | Notes | 201 | | Index | 229 |
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