Description: With this reinsertion of individual free blacks into the neighborhood, community, and county, he exposes a different, more complicated image of the lives of free people of color.
Review Quotes:
Kirt von Daacke richly documents a central paradox of the Old South. Whites denied full citizenship to free people of color and regularly deprecated them as a group, yet whites and blacks often interacted harmoniously, and some free African Americans became respected figures in the larger community.
--Melvin Patrick Ely, Bancroft Prize-winning author of Israel on the Appomattox