TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Stewart R.
AU  - Tomek,Beverly C.
ED  - Credo Reference (Firm),
TI  - Encyclopedia of free Blacks and people of color in the Americas
AV  - E29.N3 E53 2012
U1  - 305.896/07303 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Facts On File
KW  - Free blacks
KW  - America
KW  - History
KW  - Encyclopedias
KW  - Free African Americans
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; List of documents -- List of maps -- List of tables -- About the editors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of contributors -- Chronology -- Entries A-Z; Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
N2  - 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
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