Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Ira Berlin

Pantheon Books, 1974 - History - 423 pages

Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought.

Contents

• Prologue Freemen and Slaves: 3
• PART ONE THE EMERGENCE OF THE FREE NEGRO CASTE 17751812: 10
• The Origins of the Free Negro Caste: 15

About the author

Ira Berlin was born in New York City on May 27, 1941. He received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry in 1963, a master's degree in history in 1966, and a Ph.D. in history in 1970, all from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and Federal City College in Washington before becoming a professor at the University of Maryland in 1974. He wrote numerous books including Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, and The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States. He also edited several books including Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation with Marc Favreau and Steven F. Miller. He died from complications of multiple myeloma on June 5, 2018 at the age of 77.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
• Author: Ira Berlin
• Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1974
• ISBN: 039449041X, 9780394490410
• Length: 423 pages
• Subjects: History / African American & Black; History / United States / 19th Century; Social Science / Sociology / General