Encyclopedia of free Blacks and people of color in the Americas / editor: Stewart R. King ; associate editor: Beverly C. Tomek.
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2019Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (28 entries) : 54 images ; digital filesContent type:- still image
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781787853546
- 305.896/07303 23
- E29.N3 E53 2012
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Ebook | NMC Library | Credo Reference | Online | E29.N3 E53 2012 EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available online - NMC Login required | 518520 |
Includes bibliographical references.
List of documents -- List of maps -- List of tables -- About the editors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of contributors -- Chronology -- Entries A-Z.
When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person -- a sailor -- set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing a critical role in every region, colony, and country. From Canada to the Caribbean to Chile, they established vital economic and social institutions, championed the cause of abolition, and formed a bridge between the worlds of free whites and enslaved blacks.