Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1760-1860

by Christopher Phillips

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066189
• ISBN13: 9780252066184
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"