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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (28 entries) : 54 images ; digital files. |
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still image rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
List of documents -- List of maps -- List of tables -- About the editors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of contributors -- Chronology -- Entries A-Z. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Free blacks -- America -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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Free African Americans -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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Blacks -- America -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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America -- Race relations -- Encyclopedias.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
King, Stewart R., 1960- editor.
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Tomek, Beverly C., editor.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0816072124 9780816072125 (DLC) 2011017152 2 v. (xxxvii, 875, I-50 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN |
9780816072125 acid-free paper |
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9781787853546 electronic version |
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