Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1760-1860 by Christopher Phillips

Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1760-1860

Blacks in the New World

Christopher Phillips

376 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging slow-paced
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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 th...

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