Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War by Julie Winch

Author:Julie Winch [Winch, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780742551145
Amazon: 0742551148
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2014-04-04T05:00:00+00:00

American Foot Soldiers. On the eve of the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, a French officer painted this picture of black men and white men serving together in the Continental Army. Some of the black soldiers were already free, while others hoped to win their freedom by enlisting. (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University)

Portrait of Elizabeth Freeman (Mumbet). In 1781, Elizabeth Freeman and her lawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, won her freedom and helped end slavery in Massachusetts by arguing that the Massachusetts constitution’s guarantee of freedom and equality applied to everyone in the state. Sedgwick’s daughter-in-law, Susan Ridley Sedgwick, painted this portrait of Freeman thirty years after her landmark case. (Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society)

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