LEADER 04931cam 2200529 i 4500001 on1122799247 003 OCoLC 005 20200727080506.4 008 191017s2020 lauab b s001 0 eng 010 2019047542 020 9780807171769 020 080717176X |qhardcover 020 |z9780807173770 |qelectronic book 020 |z9780807173787 |qelectronic publication 035 (Sirsi) o1122799247 035 (OCoLC)1122799247 040 NcU/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dIMF |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us-nc 050 00 E185.93.N6 |bM58 2020 082 00 305.8009756 |223 049 EREN 100 1 Milteer, Warren E., |cJr. |eauthor. |=^A1325370 245 10 North Carolina's free people of color, 1715-1885 / |cWarren Eugene Milteer Jr. 264 1 Baton Rouge : |bLouisiana State University Press, |c[2020] 300 301 pages : |billustrations, map ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Making Race, Remembering Freedom: Constructing Racialized Liberty -- Colonial Liberties, Colonial Constraints: Defining Freedom in Early North Carolina -- Debating Freedom: The Radical War against Free People of Color -- Community and Conflict: Free People of Color in Society -- Freedom and Family: Relations with the Free and Enslaved -- Liberty Intersected: Race, Gender, and Wealth -- Guilty or Innocent? Free People of Color in the Courts -- The Fight for Liberty: Civil War and Reconstruction -- Epilogue: Remaking Race. 520 "In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as 'negroes,' 'mulattoes,' 'mustees,' 'Indians,' 'mixed-bloods,' or simply 'free people of color.' From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these nonenslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted--praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors. Milteer's innovative study moves beyond depictions of the American South as a region controlled by a strict racial hierarchy. He contends that although North Carolinians frequently sorted themselves into races imbued with legal and social entitlements--with whites placing themselves above persons of color--those efforts regularly clashed with their concurrent recognition of class, gender, kinship, and occupational distinctions. Whites often determined the position of free nonwhites by designating them as either valuable or expendable members of society. In early North Carolina, free people of color of certain statuses enjoyed access to institutions unavailable even to some whites. Prior to 1835, for instance, some free men of color possessed the right to vote while the law disenfranchised all women, white and nonwhite included. North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885 demonstrates that conceptions of race were complex and fluid, defying easy characterization. Despite the reductive labels often assigned to them by whites, free people of color in the state emerged from an array of backgrounds, lived widely varied lives, and created distinct cultures-all of which, Milteer suggests, allowed them to adjust to and counter ever-evolving forms of racial discrimination"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Free African Americans |zNorth Carolina |xHistory. |=^A685191 650 0 Racially mixed people |zNorth Carolina |xHistory. |=^A313405 651 0 North Carolina |xRace relations |xHistory. |=^A378735 650 7 Free African Americans. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00933834 650 7 Race relations. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 Racially mixed people. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01086595 651 7 North Carolina. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204304 |?UNAUTHORIZED 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iOnline version:Milteer Warren E., Jr. |tNorth Carolina's free people of color, 1715-1885 |dBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020. |z9780807173770 |w(DLC) 2019047543 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s45.00 |uJHIS |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 5346823