Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 by Gary B. Nash

Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840

Gary B. Nash

372 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how, from colonial times through the Revolution and into the turbulent 1830s, bla...

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