'Harboring negroes' : race, religion, and politics in North Carolina and Indiana /

dc.contributor.authorHackett, Brianen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-20T16:13:56Z
dc.date.available2014-06-20T16:13:56Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this dissertation is to challenge currently accepted ideas about free blacks in the north in the last few decades before the Civil War, focusing on the plight of a group of African Americans from North Carolina and their white, largely Quaker, supporters. The road to freedom for freepeople in the North was a dynamic and multilayered process, in this case involving the interaction of free blacks and Quakers from North Carolina, newly freed enslaved people from Alabama, and white communities in Indiana.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe primary focus of this work is a group of free and enslaved African Americans and their Quaker supporters that found themselves involved in a court case in Indiana. The principle question explored is how this event illustrates a broader perspective of the role of blacks in a "free" society in the few decades before the Civil War. Also examined is how influences outside the state would come to shape actions within the state, and how these events would affect the future. Lastly, it is a goal to see that at least part of the story of the freemen who suffered great hardship in making a place for themselves in Indiana and elsewhere is told, giving them the agency they deserve.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/3894
dc.publisherMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subject.lcshFree African Americans North Carolina Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshFree African Americans Indiana Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshQuakers North Carolina Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshQuakers Indiana Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshNorth Carolina Race relationsen_US
dc.subject.lcshIndiana Race relationsen_US
dc.subject.lcshHistory, United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshHistory, Blacken_US
dc.thesis.degreegrantorMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.thesis.degreelevelDoctoralen_US
dc.title'Harboring negroes' : race, religion, and politics in North Carolina and Indiana /en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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