Modernizing "Difference": The Political Meanings of Color in the Free States, 1776-1840

As the decade of the 1830s opened, people living in the states "north of slavery" found themselves facing unprecedented dangers and opportunities that resulted from rapidly accumulating racial tensions. Stewart seeks to explain what deeper historical developments led the North to this sudd...

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African American culture
African American studies
African Americans
American Civil War
Black communities
Political parties
Politics
Race relations
Respect
Slavery
Social conditions & trends
White people
White supremacist movements
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