Freedom's port : the African American community of Baltimore, 1790-1860
"In 1860, the Black population of Baltimore--nearly 27,000 strong and more than ninety percent free--was the largest in the nation. Christopher Phillips chronicles the growth and development of this community. As Phillips shows, the community began as a transient aggregate of individuals, many of them fresh from enslavement, and grew into a strong community comparatively free of the class and intraracial divisions that roiled other cities. Almost from the start, Baltimore's Black citizens forged their own freedom and actively defended it despite living in a slave state under white leadership that resented the liberties they had achieved."--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 1997
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1997