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Author Morales, R. Isabela, author

Title Happy dreams of liberty : an American family in slavery and freedom / R. Isabela Morales
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- 1. This Happy, Free, and Flourishing Country -- 2. The Strangest Will He Ever Knew a Sensible Man to Make -- 3. Where Shall the Free Negro Go? -- 4. I Ain't Satisfied Here at All -- 5. Some One of Us Will Have It Good -- 6. Who Hasn't Yearned to Be Home? -- Epilogue: So Much for Freedom
Summary A beautifully narrated and rich saga of one family's journey from slavery to freedom--and from the South to the North and West--set against Americans' changing attitudes towards mixed-race people from the late antebellum period to the Jim Crow era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed June 13, 2022)
Subject Townsend family.
SUBJECT Townsend family. fast (OCoLC)fst00213132
Subject Racially mixed families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
Freed persons -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
Racially mixed people -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
Freed persons.
Racially mixed families.
Racially mixed people.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Form Electronic book
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