ISBN:
9780199383092
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9780199383108
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019938309X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XV, 320 Seiten)
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Diagramme, Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Series Statement:
Economics and Finance
Series Statement:
NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896075
Keywords:
African Americans Social conditions
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19th century
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Southern States
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African Americans Economic conditions
;
19th century
;
Southern States
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Slaves Social conditions
;
19th century
;
Southern States
;
Slaves Economic conditions
;
19th century
;
Southern States
;
Southern States Economic conditions
;
19th century
;
Southern States Social conditions
;
19th century
;
USA
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Sklaverei
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Schwarze
;
Soziale Situation
Abstract:
This is the first full-length study of how colour intersected with polity, society and economy in the nineteenth century South. Although legal historians have explored how early Americans legally defined and contested race, that literature has overlooked or downplayed the middle ground occupied by a sizeable mixed-race population of antebellum free people. These were the 'talented tenth' long before W.E.B. Dubois coined the term.
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199383092.001.0001
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