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Colonial Slavery
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Chapters 4-6 . From Slavery to Freedom, 7th edition. John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. M-oss, Jr. McGraw Hill, 1998. Chapter 4: Colonial Slavery; Chapter 5: That All May Be Free; Chapter 6: Blacks in the New Republic.
The Coming of the American Revolution
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The Paradox of Slavery and Freedom, by Phillip Morgan. From Major Problems in African American History, Volume I edited by Thomas Holt and Elsa Brown, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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The Revolutionary War as a Black Declaration of Independence by Benjamin Quarles. From Black Mosaic, by Benjamin Quarles, the University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

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The Founding Fathers, Conditional Antislavery, and the Nonradicalism of the American Revolution by William W. Freehling.
From ANNUAL EDITIONS: African American History 00/01. Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 2001.

The Quasi- Free Black Community
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Chapters 7-9 . From Slavery to Freedom, 7th edition. John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. M-oss, Jr. McGraw Hill, 1998. Chapter 7: Blacks and Manifest Destiny; Chapter 8: That Peculiar Instinstitution; Chapter 9: Quasi- Free Blacks
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FREE LABOR: THE REPUBLICANS AND NORTHERN SOCIETY by ERIC FONER

From Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Lobor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Parry before che Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press. 1970), pp. 11-39. Copyright @ 1970

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The Roots of Resistance in the Free Black Communities by Emma Jones Lapansky

From
Major Problems in African American History, Volume I edited by Thomas Holt and Elsa Brown, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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From
Major Problems in African American History, Volume I edited by Thomas Holt and Elsa Brown, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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Deep River: Exploring the African American Experience
© 2008, Prof. Maria Brown

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