African-American Activism Before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North

by PatrickRael (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $42.63

  On the eve of the Civil War, over 5 per cent of the nation's 4.5 million African Americans lived outside of bondage in the nominally free states of the Union. These African Americans exercised a power in national discussions over slavery. This book gathers together scholarly essays published from 1965 on the role of African Americans.