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Free people of color in the Antebellum South / Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

Oct 25 2021
Episode 1399

 

Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr.

On the freedom of free people of color in the Antebellum South.

Historian Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. on the shifting, contested legal and social dynamics of free people of color from the colonial to antebellum periods, and his book Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South from University of North Carolina Press.