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The Free Negro in North Carolina 1790-1860. [Inscribed Copy]
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The first book authored by this noted historian upon this subject, inscribed and signed on the half-title.
Franklin’s dispassionate examination of the “legal status of the free Negro, his place in the economic life of the state, his social and religious life.” UNC Press notes: “As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.”
A very presentable copy and scarce in dust jacket.
Description: The Free Negro in North Carolina 1790-1860. [Inscribed Copy]
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1943. 271pp. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth. Inscribed and Signed by the author. From the library of historian Bell Irvin Wiley; with Wiley’s signature to front endpaper. Near fine in a very good or better dust jacket.
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