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Freedom's Port

The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860

By: Christopher Phillips

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Paperback | 16 March 1997

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Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community.

He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black people had achieved.

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''Phillips tells an important story, not just in a historiographical sense, but also in human terms. Freedom's Port is essentially a story about a community that realizes its potential and strength, and uses them to ensure its very survival against great odds. Furthermore, Phillips hones the historiography of urban slavery and the antebellum free black experience by focusing in a very detailed and methodical way on one urban community.'' -- Laura Croghan Kamoie, H-Net Reviews

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
A City of Transients, ca. 1790-ca. 1820
Slavery and the Growth of Baltimore	p. 7
The Roots of Quasi-Freedom	p. 30
The Urban Melange	p. 57
The Contours of Quasi-Freedom	p. 83
A Community of Commitment, ca. 1820-60
Climbing Jacob's Ladder	p. 117
The Maturation of a Black Community	p. 145
"Cursed with Freedom"	p. 177
"Freedom Shall Not Perish"	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 235
Notes	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 337
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The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860

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